Angela Gunder
It all started with finger paints. I wonder if for anyone else it did not start with finger paints – or at least somewhere down the line? I remember getting so frustrated because there was no good way to mix the colors (red, blue, yellow, and green) without mucking up the paint containers. The yellow would be bluish and the green an ugly brown, and all the while my little OCD brain just couldn’t take it. These days, I find myself sitting in front of Photoshop, sorting color swatches and sketches into a polished design. And no matter what I’m doing, my childhood obsession with organization comes into play – encouraging me to create that which is intrinsically clean and logical, despite the medium or the inspiration. Order in chaos, right? I just think back to my old paintings, primitive and frenetic in nature, knowing that they were all based on what was quite possibly an unhealthy level of organization for a 4 year old. I see it now as the basis for why I am madly in love with my work, and am eager to perpetually improve the way in which I approach design.
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