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I cook. I knead bread. I walk the streets of New York and look at manhole covers, sidewalk cracks, and fire escapes. Creative block happens when you are trying to 'output' without 'input.' You cannot force a eureka moment. I keep a 'swipe file'—a folder on my desktop with images that have nothing to do with design: a torn poster, a leaf, a shadow. When I am stuck, I look at that file, not at Behance." Teona Bokhua Answers: "Stop copying trends. Brutalism was huge, then minimalism, then maximalism. If you chase the wave, you drown. Teona Bokhua Answers

The answer I give my students is: 'Analog first, digital second.' The hand finds curves that the mouse cannot. I scan those rough sketches into Illustrator and use them as a low-opacity template. Then I rebuild the shape using exact geometry over the sketch. This gives me the organic feel of the hand with the precision of the machine." Q: Your color palettes often feel vintage. Where do they come from? Teona Bokhua Answers: "I am obsessed with mid-century modern palettes, specifically the colors found in old Soviet enamel pins and Italian posters from the 1960s. My answer to finding color is to move away from the screen. Are you looking for a specific tutorial by Teona

Find one constraint and marry it. For me, the constraint was 'geometric monograms with texture.' I did 500 of them. I posted them every day for a year. At first, they were bad. By month six, they started to look like me . By month twelve, magazines started writing about me. I knead bread