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Unsurprisingly the show titled Six Things incorporates six different maxims that come
from the Things I Have Learned In My Life series:
Keeping a Diary Supports Personal Development Now Is Better
Feel Others Feel Be More Flexible
If I Don't Ask I Won't Get It Is Pretty Much Impossible to Please Everybody
The studio and also I, myself, have worked on happiness for roughly the last ten years.
Clearly there are many, many aspects to happiness. We tried to get handle on the subject by making
it individual -- basically, what makes me happy.
The more I read the more I discovered that many of the things that I feel or believe
in are quite widespread.
Right away when we started with this Things I Have Learned in My Life series, I was very
adamant that we didn't duplicate the materials we used with the content of the sentences.
Some of the materials have been chosen for formal qualities, some of it clearly for content,
but it could also go against what the sentence says, or expand on what the sentence says.
Some because we just love it.
I think there are little pieces or little bits of humor in there -- fish flying out
of tanks or so.
I've always understood that every joke only works if it has a surprise. And a surprise,
of course, is a very valuable strategy for a communication designer.
In various projects movement or change can be a beautiful way to communicate something.
We took advantage of that quite a bit.
If I look around the spaces that we live in, when we live in an urban center, everything—my
watch, my sweater, my hair, my shoes, the space that I'm in, the house that I'm in,
the street that my house is in, the block, the neighborhood the street's in—is designed.
It's everything. I mean, basically the entire surroundings are completely designed. And
they can be designed well, or they can be designed awful. And that of course has an
effect on my well-being.
Why happiness matters to me in general is: Why would anything else matter?