The Cloud Maker

[me. not the cloud maker]

A while ago, I ran across a post on swiss miss about a designer named Duncan Shotton who made this amazing way to keep track of your keys. I thought to myself... oh, clearly this is some famous dude who somehow has extra time and resources on his hands and thought he'd knock out a few thou of these and swiss miss probably picked it up by chance while reading his personal design blog, because this designer has time to write his own blog while running his comany too! AND I bet he never writes run-on sentences.

I was wrong. Again, while reading swiss miss I ran across another post regarding this same designer. This time it was a video of a talk he did explaining how he came about the idea of the cloud key holder and the steps he took to make advertise and sell his idea. 

What I find fascinating is how what we see perceives how we think about a certain designer. I love that he tells us how the night before he left to sell his work he had them all laying out on his bed and how he took a picture of them at 6am because he was up working on them all night. How he sent it to swiss miss because he wanted some publicity - yet he didn't just send an image he gifted her with the actual object. 

This is how you can tell the difference between true passion and the generic designer. It makes me question myself. Do I have what it takes? Do I want it enough? I think if you take the amount of want that I have and add in the drive to do what it takes... things are looking pretty good. I just hope I have the skill and mastery required to stay as motivated as he was.

You can watch the video here! 

Seriously, it's worth your time!