{"id":46,"date":"2017-06-26T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/26\/interview-with-dominic-wilcox-about-the\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:36:53","slug":"interview-with-dominic-wilcox-about-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2017\/06\/interview-with-dominic-wilcox-about-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Dominic Wilcox about the \u201creinvention of normal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The everyday in itself is quite dull. But creative people tend to give the everyday a lift, a surprise or a smile. They add something new to it. I like that. It is like a white sheet of paper for an artist. I use the everyday as a challenge for me to give it something more interesting. The everyday world is my canvas. I think it is very difficult to be creative when you\u2019re in a really crazy environment. It is a bit like me if I go to a party: when there are lots of loud people, I go quiet. Because I don\u2019t want to compete. And it\u2019s the same thing with design. The context I work in starts quiet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For this year\u2019s TYPO conference, David\u00a0Reitenbach and me sat down with speaker Dominic Wilcox to discuss some thoughts from his talk and some more general questions regarding the life as an inventor.<\/p>\n

Read the interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a fan of his work since a friend gave me his book \u201cVariations on Normal\u201d, with the comment that \u201cthis guy is just as odd as you are\u201d. Don\u2019t forget to check out Dominic\u2019s portfolio<\/a>\u00a0full of crazy, funny and light-hearted inventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The everyday in itself is quite dull. But creative people tend to give the everyday a lift, a surprise or a smile. They add something new to it. I like that. It is like a white sheet of paper for an artist. I use the everyday as a challenge for me to give it something … Interview with Dominic Wilcox about the \u201creinvention of normal\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204,1198],"tags":[48,41,105,46,45,2,43],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ueber-medien","category-zitate","tag-design","tag-english","tag-interview","tag-link","tag-quote","tag-text","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}