Dani Roche is a creative director, digital marketing strategist, and entrepreneur based in Toronto. She is the founder and owner of Kastor and Pollux, a multi-disciplinary agency with a focus on digital and experiential work.

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On Practices is an editorial platform for dialogue on building and maintaining creative practices. Each round features ten interviews from ten people to provide stories and insights for establishing a practice in these confusing times. A project by 56.

View round one here ↗

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OP

So which one was it?

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I spiral sometimes but I still leave my house. Sometimes I’m spiralling when I leave my house but maybe that’s not important.

OP

Can you explain the concept of design being more than a commodity?

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Many of us grew up under the understanding that to make it into a creative field we would have to enslave ourselves to instant ramen dinners and a perpetual worry about being unable to make rent. As a result of this, it's often easy to cheapen or commodify our work: finding ways to diminish its value for fear of competing with "market prices". Design is everywhere we look: the coffee mug on our desk, or our favourite e-commerce websites' brand identity. But not everyone can do it, and not everyone should do it.

OP

How does the democratization of design tools affect this dynamic?

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We need to be more critical of the work we put out there and be honest about where our ideas and inspiration come from. This calls to attention a needed conversation about originality as well as integrity. We can be inventors, but the fact is, we exist in a space where we are inevitably followers at the same time we are innovators