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Source material: illustrator Ada Lindqvist wants us to appreciate bad ideas

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Welcome to Source material, a weekly series in which designers share the references that shaped them. This week: illustrator Ada Lindqvist.

The tarot deck she never finished

"I keep the bad drafts on the wall. They're the only ones that still surprise me."

Ada started a tarot deck in art school and abandoned it at card 19. She still pins those nineteen cards above her desk.

A riso zine from 2011

Two colours, mis-registered, printed in a basement. It taught her that constraints make a voice.

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