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How to Simplify Complexity!

What started out as a marketing project, inspired by this Medium article,

Nobody Told Me Pinterest Could Make Me Money — Until I Found This Strategy

I began several months ago, but before I could do that, I needed to structure my current identity into a unified whole. The whole has three parts:

andersen design
andersen studio gallery of art and design
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

When I was a young girl, my father said to me that if I wanted to be happy in life, I should make myself part of something larger than myself. Within my complex world at home, my larger identity was Andersen Design. I was lucky that Andersen Design existed as a larger identity construct because the local community, consisting of my school environment, did not provide an identification space for me. I was an outsider at school but a natural-born insider within the social construct of Andersen Design. To this day, Andersen Design remains a holistic, connective field that unifies my identity.

My goal, or perhaps dream, is for this collective identity to include others, but today it i just myself. Perhaps if I succeed in my current project, which includes reconfiguration of the web identity to match the current reality, and then to construct an AI-driven sales and marketing channel, others will see the value of the unique enterprise established by my parents in 1952.

The Andersen Design Team
The Andersen Design Team

Andersen Design was always more than its artful products; it is also a philosophy. Today, that philosophy is hidden in the mists. It is my purpose to make that philosophy a voice in the new, rapidly changing world of work.

A budding White Rugosa Rose
The White Rugosa Rose Bloom Begins bySusan Mackenzie Andersen

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose