Journal Entry 4

Who is Bruce Mau?

Bruce Mau is a visionary and a world leading innovator. He's Chief Creator of Bruce Mau Design, which was founded in 1985. He also founded the Institute without Boundaries, a studio-based postgrad program that was formed out of the conviction that the future demands a new breed of designer. In 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto was written to articulate Bruce Mau's beliefs, stratagies and motivations. This manifesto is how Bruce Mau Design approaches every project.

Of the forty-some mantras, therer are a couple that i would like to follow:

1. Allow events to change you.
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

I think there are times when things happen and I just return to the norm, not even phased by what happened; not realizing if there was any significance to what occured. I'd like to learn from past experiences, rather than not recognizing them and eventually forgetting.

9. Begin anywhere.
John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.


A lot of times when I start a task, a project, whatever...i have trouble finding a starting point. Rather than worry about this..i'd like for it to just happen.