06/08/2026
The greatest creative mentor I’ve ever had doesn’t own a design studio.
It grows wild. 🌿🐝
A year ago, I changed traffic lights for dragonflies, concrete for wild herbs, and rush hour for the sound of bees. 🐝
I thought moving to a tiny village would simply make life quieter.
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Nature is unbelievably alive!
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For years, I walked past an entire world without noticing it. 🐾
Bees moving from flower to flower.🌼
Beetles hidden beneath leaves. 🪲
Butterflies disappearing the moment you think you’ve found them. 🦋
Cities teach us to look ahead.
Nature teaches us to look closer.
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The tiny world of insects never disappeared. 🐜
It had always been there, carrying on with its own rhythms and routines.
I was the one who had stopped paying attention.
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The quality of our creative 🎨 work depends on the quality & capacity of our observation.
Observation changes the way we create.
The more time I spent watching nature, the more I found myself learning from it:
its colors,
volumes,
textures,
movements,
and the smallest details that often go unnoticed.
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Nature doesn’t waste a single movement 🌳
Every wing, every flower, every flight path has a purpose.
The more I observed, the more I realized that it has been teaching
design,
patience,
and balance
long before we gave those ideas names.
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Once I started reeeeeally observing,
I started designing differently.
This animated story grew out of those slow walks.
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Want to train your creative eye while walking?
Let me know in the comments ↴
If this post gets 10+ comments, I’ll prepare a post my favorite creative observation exercises. 🌿🐝