My dad had a huge influence on how I approach design thinking. As an interior designer he kept telling me that when designing a kitchen you need to design the patterns on the tea towels and the coffee mugs as well as the actual space—meaning nothing is designed in isolation and you always need to look for those connections. in a way it was his version of Massimo Vignelli’s idiom ‹if you can design one thing, you can design everything›. Tom Muller.