Design Storytelling

Here’s a lovely video interview with Max Lamb from the @proteinfeed crew, in which he talks about happy making things such as the importance of truth to materials, working with your hands and knowing that there’s a human behind a product. Yes, indeed, this is a heart warming way to end the week that has me pining for the workshop.

“Things are the same with writing and knife making - it just takes buckets of blood and sweat and fucking work to get there, that’s it. To get good, to get competent. Then once you get competent maybe you have it in you to become an artist, maybe you don’t.

Before you get to a place where you can actually make art with the skills that you learn, you have to master the basics. It takes a lot of work to get there and when you get there, that’s day one. Then you can start and you can be making something that you maybe call art.”

Great words from artisan knifemaker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn - part of the Do One Thing Well movement. Above is Made By Hand’s beautiful film of Joel at work.