I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to1for some little experiments, things that are always difficult to 2during the regular working years. In that year, we are not3for any of our clients and we are totally closed. As you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.
I 4had opened the studio in New York to5my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I 6, just like with many, many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, 7by them. And for sure, in our case, our 8started to look the same. You see here a glass eye in a die(模子) cut of a book. Quite the 9idea, then, a perfume packaged in a 10, in a die cut. So I decided to close it down for one year.
Also is the knowledge that right now we spend about the first 25 years of our lives 11, then there is another 40 years that's really 12for working. And then at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement. And I thought it might be 13 to basically cut off five of those retirement years and put them in between those working years. That's clearly enjoyable for myself. But probably even more important is that the work that comes out of these 14flows back into the company and into society at large, rather than just15 a grandchild or two…
