Rediscovering Myself

When I first went in-house after college, my biggest fear was losing my style. I remember long conversations with classmates about how working for a brand meant giving yourself over to their aesthetic. You trained your eye to see the way they wanted you to see. You became part of the machine. The risk, people warned, was that once you were molded into a company’s vision, it would be almost impossible to break free and make it as a freelancer.