This all started with an upside-down dinosaur. Yep.

In 3rd grade, my teacher turned a picture of a dinosaur upside down on my desk. I glared back at her. I was a rule-follower. “Why is she turning this upside down?”, I thought. “Draw it,” she told me, “and resist the urge to turn it right-side up.” I must’ve given her a funny look, but she just stared at me while I processed what she said. After a few minutes, I complied. (She was, after all, telling me what to do).

When I finished and turned it over I was shocked – in more ways than one. My drawing looked almost exactly like the original dinosaur. It was probably the most realistic drawing I’d ever done at that point in my 8-year-old life. But the real shock came from realizing I could draw it better, because I was not thinking about drawing a dinosaur.

I became obsessed.

You see, there were a lot different lines that made up that dinosaur. Without putting those lines together in the right way, they’re just a bunch of lines on a piece of paper. But, put them together correctly and wham-o, they become a dinosaur.

So, while it may seem that design is an aesthetic ambition, it’s really wicked problem solving.  

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