Why are package designers rethinking the box? Now, this is the kind of question that really

gets me thinking because as an artist and writer, I love learning from designers and the way

they approach making things with other people in mind. This question about package designers

is actually the title of a recent episode of Season 4 of the Adobe Wireframe podcast. I'm a

listener of this podcast,

and they're actually a sponsor of today's show here on the Morgan Harp Nichols

podcasts. We're all about learning something new and seeing something in a new way. And Adobe

Wireframe is one of those places where you can do that too. Check it out today. The link is in

the show notes. And now on to today's episode, which is called a new and practical perspective.

If you can't stop thinking about what's unknown, thank you for listening.

For many of us, the younger we are, the more the future seems filled with possibility. Even if we have some knowledge that

the future's not going to be perfect, there is this idea that we have time to see how everything

comes together. There's an idea that the future is this bright open space that is inviting us to come and explore and learn something new and to travel and have new experiences. But the older we get, the more that bright light that seems to shine on the future can start to seem to grow a little bit more

dim.

Perhaps we finally arrived at some future that we were looking forward to, such as graduating from

school or getting in a certain relationship, and then it happened. And suddenly we're faced with a reality

of just how uncertain life is, even when things do go according to plan. From there, it can be

harder to hold this idea that the future is bright and open with possibilities. And the more we have these

experiences of downfalls or disappointments or things just taking longer than we want them to,

the more it can start to feel like this bright light of the future is unsustainable. And it gets harder and harder to find peace

for the days ahead that we don't know yet.

And the other day, the pessimist in me got to thinking,

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