Ian Love | Design 

 An Intuition-Driven Process  

The sustainability of his design approach relates to the mysticism that underlies it; in the same, personally tumultuous five-year timespan during which his brand and creative practice developed, he began a practice of transcendental meditation to calm his nerves through it all. With no professional schooling and a process based nearly entirely on material-maker intuited connection, Ian’s work in turn emerges from some semblance of a collective unconscious. His meditation is about leaning into and trusting the intuitive process, and he receives the strongest response to his work from people who cite relationship to it on an emotional or cognitive level, as if it’s sparking an image, feeling or memory from their own, archetypally familiar unconscious.

The emotionality and the self-taught, experimental nature of Ian’s process are jointly informative of his creative trajectory. His intentions to appreciate material life in its perfected and marred forms alike, and to create desirability from refuse, together form the basis for his growing collection of design objects.