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Tristan Burfield

Tristan Burfield confessed to being a little nervous when we spoke, even if he didn’t seem to be. I don’t relay this admission to embarrass him, but rather to point to a refreshingly earnest modesty that seemed to be in inverse proportion to the quality of the work he shared with me.

Indeed, the design process and product Tristan discussed in our brief encounter contained something far more valuable than originality or vision and was

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