Feature Article: Adobe Create // Solving Problems with Design

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Solving Problems with Design

Shanti Sparrow describes her occupation as “problem solver.”

It’s not about watching the joy on children’s faces while they read her delightful books, or seeing her illustrations on a range of exclusive luggage, or even winning another Indigo Design Award, of which she has seven. What springs the Australian designer from her bed each morning is the excitement of finding solutions to design problems.

“My family are all in medicine and I’m the oddball creative,” says Sparrow, speaking from her home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “I think I get so many of my traits from my mother because she was a hospital crisis manager. You know, if there was a fire or a flood, she was that person who would try to figure out strategy and problem-solving. And she would make some of the most incredible, tough calls.” Read more