“After years of hard work, I found out that there are 3 types of inspiration: 1) Very simple ideas which simply fall “pop” into your lap and are instantly genius. 2) Ideas that you have to tweak a lot and in the end, they come out “ok.” 3) “THE BLACK HOLE”: an empty head and no idea in sight. By now, I’ve come up with a method for the last scenario to still get a result: exaggeration! When you look at the sole of this shoe, I’m sure you’ll see which “inspiration category” this design belongs to. Pretty exaggerated… This pattern is kind of an image cryptogram. If you are into puzzles, my hit is: start at the very bottom.”