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A decade ago, I was a burned out, overworked designer who felt like I’d lost my connection to the reason I became a designer. I felt crushed by the rat race and the pressure to use the thing I was most passionate about, design, to… Read More »Start Your Sustainable Journey

I’ve recently returned from the first Outdoor Retailer tradeshow in a couple years, and it was… weird. I’m not sure there’s another way to put it! The once 3-story, frenetic, and exhausting retail buying fiesta was about one quarter of its former size, and none… Read More »OR 2021 was… different