About Charles

Image by Agenda Brown - Visual Marvelry

Born outside the box.

The innovation mindset. Out-of-the-box thinking. Whichever phrase you choose to coin, it can neither be studied, nor learnt. Great designers are innately rebellious. They were born outside the box.

Punk music took me in, early on. It fit. A young man on the outside of traditional expectations, my childhood experience was filled with more views from the planet than many get to see in a lifetime. It’s always been the default to see things differently: to look at life, environment and behaviour through a different filter. To create beyond what is expected. To redirect the road ahead. When it comes to design, I will always be outside the box.

Image by Agenda Brown at visualmarvelry.com.

Seeing different things.

I can’t explain my passion for my work without looking back beyond it. I grew up in a multicultural, multilingual family. My immediate environment was different, yet there was a lot of sameness in our world. I often felt like I didn’t fit in. I saw things differently because I had seen different things. I converted it into my career.

Seeing things differently.

Seeing things differently is the lifeblood of creativity, of problem solving, of replacing the same with the new. Passion for work should be effortless. I work best where vision and passion are considered the keys to the front door. Vision that welcomes what’s next. Passion for the old, and the new. In order to know where we’re going, we need to build on the knowledge of where we have been. Respect for what came before gives new ideas the space to become an authentic improvement on the present.