Design Thinking my future

Written By Gold Standard Creative

Amid a year of new creative opportunities and evolving professional priorities, I’ve been obsessing over what’s next and how to achieve balance in said pursuit(s). So I’m doing what I’ve done for every class, website, album or child I’ve created: write down the things you want to see happen, research and reverse engineer that s#!%

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Life Goals

  • Live in Los Angeles

  • Live in London

  • Live in Johannesburg

  • Live in Trinidad

  • Codify the time vs. money conundrum

  • Build or buy a house

  • Build or buy a mobile home/office

  • Coach youth basketball

  • Always be mentoring

  • Prove the creative theory of relativity

  • Procure sponsorship to teach free LLC & Business Tax workshops in the hood and subsidize registration fees for my students.

  • Learn to sing, play guitar and the drums

  • Dunk again

  • Learn braille and sign language

Work Goals

  • Teach creative theory or digital art in college

  • Work in music industry as a Creative Director

  • Place visuals on a billboard

  • Produce a visual album

  • Sync music in a feature film

  • Write songs for an animated film

  • Curate or build an exhibit

  • Build or direct a multipurpose creative space

  • Play at least one festival per summer

  • Write a children’s book

  • Design major American sports uniforms

  • Model for Pyer Moss

  • Be nominated for an ASCAP, Grammy, Webby and/or MOBO

  • Write a book about the creative theory of relativity

Collab Goals

  • Spike Lee

  • Jay-Z

  • Beyonce

  • Hank Willis Thomas

  • Big Block Sing Song

  • Sesame Street

  • an NBA franchise

  • Chance the Rapper

  • Kenwood Academy (my high school)

  • an HBCU

  • Dav3 & Freedom (my kids)

  • Gil Scott Heron (RIP)

  • Nelson George

  • Bill Simmons

  • Malcolm Gladwell

Gold Standard Creative

Gold Standard Creative, LLC is a studio. We have a decade of experience creating for print mediums, digital platforms and programs. We translate cultural narratives and increase brand fluency through empathy, awareness and intersectional thinking.

We specialize in media production and brand development; contracting services as flat rate units of labor and consultation. We define labor as activity towards the production of a clearly-stated concept; and consultation as the alignment of concepts towards the success of a production. We believe selling time as a unit of function, versus pace; standardizes expectations, encourages efficiency and yields metrics.

http://gsc.nyc
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