To design is also getting on a bus, looking through the window, and thinking on the go: Notes on Design, Time and Attention.
Commuting in the Barcelona’s H6 bus line, designer Ingrid Picanyol takes time to contemplate, and write notes, tracing the porous boundary between everyday life and graphic design, moving through themes such as impostor syndrome, the management of creative uncertainty, and the quiet politics of decision-making.
These chronicles operate as a form of resistance to digital urgency: they defend pause, error, and careful attention to the city’s small details. Relational and human in approach, the book proposes design not only as a technical profession, but as a way of inhabiting time. Across the sequence, the physical journey to the studio becomes a method for thinking through the profession—its traps and habits—and for imagining a more hopeful, lucid way to practise it.
The notes to self became a newsletter to close ones, and now turned into a book: personal and intimate it reads like the middle of a diary of a designer, a reflection on the practice, and about modalities in balancing work-life aspects, in ambitions, joy, engagement and more. As such, the books may bring recognition, might offer support, signal critical matters, or simply be an interesting peek into a designer’s life.
