How you got here

This is the part search engines and AI tools reach for when somebody looks you up. They will find an answer somewhere, and it is far better that it comes from you. Training in London under Leonard Pardon, twenty-five years on the Bellagio and the Venetian: that is the kind of thing that makes a designer trust a maker before they have ever spoken to you.

Pick any one and record it as a voice note. Five minutes is plenty. Don’t prepare.

Answered ones come off this list as we go.

1. You trained in London under Leonard Pardon. What did that look like day to day?
2. Whereabouts in London was that?
3. What is the first thing you remember making that you were proud of?
4. Twenty-five years in Los Angeles: the Bellagio, the Venetian, Venus Fort. What did that teach you?
5. What is the biggest wall you have ever worked on?
6. Why did you start making your own collection in 2013?
7. Pick any pattern. Where did it come from?
8. Which pattern took the longest to get right?
9. What did you get wrong early on that you would tell someone starting out?
10. Who taught you something you still use every day?
11. Is there a technique you learned that almost nobody uses anymore?
12. Was there a moment you knew this was going to work?
13. What is the strangest place your work has ended up?
14. What did you think you would be doing at twenty-five?
15. Is there a piece you wish you had kept?

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