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Enhancing Our Design Practices

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Corps Coffees are all about conversations, creating connections and coffee! They are morning events centered around an important and timely topic for the design community. We don’t present anything, but we do help facilitate an in-depth conversation about a topic as a means to deepen our understanding.
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Enhancing Our Design Practices

Thursday, January 16, 2025

CHOMP – Upstairs Loft

505 Cerrillos Rd Santa Fe, NM 87501
no cost | free parking | door prizes | coffee | pastries

Ohori’s Coffee and Fresh Pastries courtesy of Firefly Strategies Global

As design professionals, it’s crucial to stay ahead by continually evolving our skills. Join us at the next Corps Coffee for an engaging conversation around:

What new skills, design-related or complementary to our work, should we acquire in 2025?
How do we transition from learning something new to establishing a sustainable practice?
Can Design Corps facilitate practicums or hold space to help designers practice and grow together?
How does pattern thinking and habit-forming play a role in our creative practice?

Talks and Tidbits:

Julia Cameron, author of Artist’s Way has given talks on her books at Collected Works; Her book, The Art of Perseverance comes highly recommended.

Be vigilant and protective of your time; set your phone aside, turn off email for a few hours…otherwise, you have to deal with mental Swiss Cheese. Perhaps you could use Pomodoro time management techniques.

Next time you discuss timelines, or schedules, ask for more time than you normally do. Use that time to explore, reflect, and design with intention.

Slow Food and Slow Design

“Slow food celebrates local produce and traditional cooking methods; slow fashion is made with a focus on people and the planet. You may have even heard of the slow city, an emerging campaign to restore local cultures and turn cities back to their natural environments to mitigate climate change. The slow design shares the same sentiment.”

Speaking of protecting time, Snøhetta, a global transdisciplinary practice (architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, product design and graphic design)  are known for taking time and conducting broad exploration phases in their work. We should all add this to the list of places to explore and rejuvenate.

Curt Doty’s new AI focused series, El Sailon is going well and meets on the second Tuesdays of every month. Curt tells a story of AI very stubbornly inserting a pumpkin into an illustration despite many prompts otherwise. Get to know your toolset and work with your ideas across those toolsets.

Did you know that AI nearly always renders watch faces set to 10:10? How did that get started?

Along with “check your ego at the door”, we have another great mantra: “create more than you consume”—which relates to practical learning and creating techniques. Did you know that if you retain about 90% of what you learn if you immediately teach someone else?

And finally, if you are looking to up your game, hone your knowledge, look up Jay Shetty’s, On Purpose podcast.

Until next time, happy practicing!

Facilitated by Rubina Cohen

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