Learning to Stop Holding Back
I grew up with sketch paper instead of toys. Other kids played with dolls; I was busy drawing floorplans and arranging tiny rooms in my head...
“Design doesn’t have to be loud to be powerful; it just has to connect.”
But here’s the truth: none of that felt like it mattered… In a Target meeting, a director said: “Candice, I can tell you’re holding back. Stop. Just design.” I cried after. It set me free.
Every project since—retail or one-of-a-kind—has been a refusal to shrink. Problem-solving, storytelling, giving shape to feeling: that’s the work.
Until the next obsession—Candice