My First Metalwork
Typography, hierarchy, composition, texture, color – these are just some of the aesthetic principles a designer can play with in their creative work. While they represent very different aspects of design, I believe there are invisible and unconscious qualities that are shared between them.
What makes a beautiful type layout is different from that of an elegant graphic composition – and yet there is a hidden connection and similarity in their harmonies. There is some universal principle of quality that threads between aesthetic disciplines.
As designers, we can take skills from one area and use them as stepping stones into others. And as a self-taught designer, this has been a hallmark of my career. I have never worked in metal fabrication, and I had never designed a gate before. But when the city informed me that I was required to remove some illegal construction made by the original owners of my home, a gate was to be one of the required corrections.
I approached the project like any other – applying design thinking to create a beautiful product that fit all of its constraints and met all of its requirements.
