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RECRUITMENT & CREATIVE RESOURCES VIEWPOINT
Viewpoint
How do you switch off?
Gilles et Cecilie Julie Kim Rhonda Drakeford, Multistorey
By taking out the batteries. My attention seems to jump in a split I started writing a lengthy answer about not
second without priority. I flit from one task really ever switching off but was sounding
www.gillesandcecilie.com to another, harried by the pressure to get like some smug arsehole columnist from the
things done. I close my eyes and picture my Guardian Weekend.
own momentary paradise… I am walking
amongst chalk downs, the last ripples of If I’m truly honest, the only thing that works
Africa’s collision with Europe. Birds, insects, is whiskey.
trees come alive quietly. The rain starts,
the sun drips through the leaves rendering www.multistorey.net
the surroundings in full texture, tone, light,
colour and drama. Breathing earth, mist
and fresh air restores the senses. The stroll in
my memory allows me the pleasure of
rediscovering the randomness, ordinariness
and the multilayered fabric of everyday life.
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Jason Smith, Fontsmith Jaakko Tuomivaara, O-SB Paul Finn, Fitzroy & Finn
I am sure a lot of Grafik readers, and indeed
Although the neighbourhood kids don’t I’ve always found it difficult switching off.
designers in general, do switch off. But as
come knocking at my front door quite as Even when I’ve switched off the computer
designers it is in our genetic make-up NOT
often as they did twenty years ago, I think the and left the office, my mind is still occupied
to switch off. It also seems our nature as
basic idea is still the same: go out and play. by the residue of work: jobs, clients, invoices,
designers is to drink booze… I really don’t
typefaces… I spend all day sat in front
think I do ‘switch off’—I’m constantly looking
www.o-sb.co.uk of my computer living in my head, so I’ve
at letterforms, making notes, talking about
recently started running, which is the exact
work, thinking of ideas, getting inspiration
opposite—you are fully in your body. I
from art, advertising, music, architecture,
read an insightful article by the author
furniture and fashion. It is a visual world, so
and keen runner Haruki Murakami about
what hope do we have, other than to drink
his attitude towards running. For him it is
ourselves into not being capable of seeing it?
meditation; providing insight and inspiration
for his practice. So now when I run I use it
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as an opportunity to switch off all those
niggling thoughts and think about nothing
other than my breathing.
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