About design
My favorite collectibles as a kid were chocolate bar wrappers. As weird as it may sound I don’t like chocolate. I was probably the only child out there who would take it out of the package and give it to my parents to eat. The wrapper, however, was another thing. I would press it flat and add it to rest in the box. I loved getting chocolates as gifts from my parents’ numerous friends who traveled abroad and always brought some back. That assured the abundance in my collection.
Occasionally as the collection grew larger I would take it out of the box and carefully arrange the wrappers on the table for inspection. I would view closely the pictures, the illustrations, the calligraphy and embossed typography. Every time I found something new to admire. Little did I know that years later I would go to art school to study textile and fashion design, then to college to study graphic design and latter on to advertising school to major as an art director. It seems that the chocolate wrappers were the beginning of my life-long appreciation of good design in all unexpected places.
As a freelance graphic designer my life is colorful and evolves around transcending and interpreting concepts and ideas. I find that subconsciously I look for beauty, creativity, good craftsmanship and unique ideas in everything I happen to stumble upon daily. From the way my food is arranged on the plate to the shape and texture of the rocks I photograph in Malta, I savor the world visually.
And it all started with a collection of chocolate wrappers.
Rocks, washed by the waves.
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