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Cezar Regala is a multi-disciplinary designer and craftsperson based in Newark, New Jersey. Their work often interacts with the obscure and esoteric, and they aim to unveil these types of stories through various creative mediums.

Their design approach and thinking is material and process oriented, valuing the physicality of making and creation. The intersections and disconnects between art, design, and craft are some of the driving factors behind their creative rationale. Understanding these similarities and differences influence how they interact with narrative experimentation.

Design is not just a medium or process; it is a way of thinking about everything and anything. Everything is design and design is everything. Design serves as prayer to and for communication through material and action. Intention is vital and vitality leads to clear and concise understanding of concepts and convictions.

To be resolute in design is to be resolute with human nature and the key units of what makes one human. We as a society and every subsequent culture exist because storytelling exists, and vice versa, storytelling exists because, we, as a culture exist.

We are designing with every breath and twitch and signal sent from nerve to brain. Every action ever acted was consciously or subconsciously designed. The manners in which one lives their life are results of the design of humanistic tendency.

Visuals and aesthetics aside, design can and should be considered a general vernacular method of thinking to be utilized by all. From professionals, to amateurs, design thinking is a critically valuable tool to be used within every aspect of life.