This month, we’re featuring Sarah Kim as our Creative Mornings MugShot! Sarah is a creator, designer, experience partaker, and french fry connoisseur who also does UX/UI Design. She loves meeting new people from every, any, and all walks of life, so say hi if you see her out & about!

What are you inspired by?

It’s been amazing to see our generation really use their voice. And with the advancements in technology and the platforms we have now, people will use them however they please, but I think it’s been a great source of positivity.

I think in past generations it was about surviving and making it, and now we have more opportunity to thrive and use our voice. I’m loving the movement of people standing up and trying to make the world a better place. I think as artists and designers, we’re trying to let our voice be heard, whether it’s your client’s voice or your voice or your vision. It’s something that makes me proud and hopeful for the future.

What makes you “weird” and how does that inspire you?

I think most of my friends will say is that I ask a lot of questions. I’m very curious and inquisitive and I don’t really have an ego so I don’t care about sounding stupid — I’d rather ask the questions to learn and know more. I like to ask a million questions and I don’t have a filter so I’ll dig really deep. People don’t have to answer them. That’s one of my quirky things. Being vulnerable.

Where do you go to get inspired?

I go to meditation a lot. Earlier this year I took a vipassana course. It’s a 10-day intensive meditation course. There’s no interaction with the outside world, no writing, no speaking, no reading and 11 hours per day of meditation in a very specific technique. It quiets your mind but it also stirs up a lot of things in you — good and bad — but I think a lot of times when you’re looking for inspiration and your trying too hard to find it, there’s kind of a sense of anxiety because you’re looking for it, so there’s a little bit of resistance. I’ve found out that sometimes when you completely surrender yourself and let go, that’s when the best ideas come to you. When I was completely silent for 10 days and had no idea what was going on in the outside world, that’s when I had all of these amazing ideas. Meditation has been this great opportunity for stress relief and inspiration. When I got out of the retreat, colors got so much brighter. Everything was enhanced. I was able to let go of some wounds.