sanj • thinkable

Create. Curate. Iterate. // Thinkable Desktop Studio A modular tangible thinking space for creative work. Work on ideas without distraction, stay focused and in creative flow. // How it works To start, throw every productivity rule out the window - it destroys the creative process. Creativity and productivity exist on a spectrum and when you do one, it costs you the other. Welcome to the messy middle. Thinkable is a place where you can visualize your thoughts and ideas and then keep them in sight, top of mind, and in reach. Where you can effortlessly iterate, synthesize and collaborate with yourself, while expanding your mind, creative field of view and explore your ideas. // Why should you listen to me? I’ve done a lot of design, both physical and digital. Everything you see at thinkable I’ve crafted - ID / brand / copy / web / product / artwork / photography / film. Judge the work, it’s opinionated. I even spent a year writing a book on the topic (of Tangible Thinking). // coming soon. Sign up for the Kickstarter announcement. Link in bio.

I wonder if I could use @linear to help me build my very first iOS app as non-techie. I'm using Codex/Xcode to build it. But I don't if there would be a benefit for a solo builder using @linear. Anyone doing this? @karrisaarinen

My portfolios aren't doing the job anymore. maybe they're just too.... -- plstic.com sanjivsirpal.com/new/

I tried to recreate a memory. I had a photo from when I was working on my thesis. A single shot of a computer, running AutoCad. Everything else I know about that time, about that room, or what I was thinking or feeling, is vague. I think that the future of 3D environments, is to be able to travel back in time to witness our own lives. Maybe it's nostalgia speaking, or the philosophical self - but our journeys are finite, and only a handful will really care. Memory + Source Image lab.plstic.com/experiments/e…

It’s not that design is dead, its that we’re having a hard time naming what we’re designing.

how is this possible? it dawned on me that I can just make stuff

Design a thing.

I shot my first photos with a Yashica 50mm lens. My pops had bought it with the Yashica FXD. Popping it on the M11-P made it sing again.

Photocopying a book doesn’t mean you can write. (Love the ID.)

Make things real.

Less teams. More solo operators.

Thinkable Rendering Studio - Give it a try lab.plstic.com/experiments/t… Pointed Codex to a set of reference photos, and asked it to enhanced the rendering to match lighthing conditions. A little back and forth and voila.

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his throught; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing. - wallace wattles

Happy November.

“There is a certain beauty in things that cannot be hurried.”

I can design - anything, anywhere - with just a pen and piece of paper. I don’t need an agent or figma or a computer.

Is @AnthropicAI hiring? I need to join by end of week. And ya, you can backdate my employment agreement to 2023.

lens/focus interaction pattern is neat, but the results are kinda useless an ode to @agusegui recent work