Episode 53
Fostering Creativity + Trusting Your Instincts w/ Yorgo Lykouria the Creative Director at Rainlight
“When you’re young you’re impatient.. I think that having more patience is really important. Don’t seek fame too quickly, seek to be good before you become famous. Fame should come when you are good… Don’t rush, it will come.”
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This chat is a very special one, connecting with us all the way from London!
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We can’t wait for you to join this chat with Yorgo Lykouria!
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Yorgo Lykouria is the Creative Director at Rainlight. Yorgo leads Rainlight’s London design studio. In his early years as an architect working in Airports and high-rises, Yorgo became the youngest design director at Helmut Jahn’s office in Chicago. In 2002, he established the award-winning London studio, Lykouria, which he ran for 12 years as a multidisciplinary practice. Yorgo’s broad spectrum of practice includes architecture, design, and filmmaking. He is recognized for his work in automotive interiors for Ferrari, and various works for Vitra, Akaba, Alape and Dornbracht. His recent design partnerships with Rainlight include collaborations with Allsteel, Arcadia, Tecno, Scavolini, Okamura and Zumtobel.
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He poured into the chat his journey starting in engineering to architecture and now industrial design, and the challenges he faced as an emerging designer and tangible tips for us navigating similar things!
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From sharing his thoughts on Pinterest and creativity, trusting your instincts, navigating uncertainty, sustainability and design thinking, these are just a few things we covered!
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We always think of ourselves as design friends in studio, and how cool is it that this platform allows us to connect with designers all across the world and learn with them too?! We’ll be waiting for you wherever you tune into podcasts! Tag two design friends below who could use some inspiration today
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We are curious, what’s one word that describes how you feel about pinterest as a design tool?
C O N N E C T
@rainlightstudio
rainlightstudio.com
Weather Report w/Rainlight
P U M P U P J A M
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
D E S I G N C R U S H E S
My Wife
Pininfarina @pininfarina_official
Luigi Colani
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