Stepping outside my comfort zone

As a designer, I’m always trying to keep my ideas fresh. And the best way to do that is to step out of your comfort zone artistically. Now, sometimes this produces unusual results. For example, I have an end table that is shellacked with playing cards and campbell’s soup labels. Not my best work. But it was something I did outside of my normal aesthetic. Creativity is like a muscle­ - you need to keep working it, otherwise it will atrophy. That said, I stumbled across this website the other day for some inspiration: www.jellio.com/store.html (See the picture of a cupcake chair).

Seeing this work got my blood pumping and heart racing. Who knows - perhaps this weekend I’ll create a xylophone made of twizzlers. Or a slinky hat, or an oreo mosaic, or a scrabble-tiled picture frame…. When you think outside the box, the possibilities become endless.