field notes

letters and lessons from a creative director building in real time.

These are weekly letters documenting what I’m building, what I’m learning, and how creative direction shows up in real life. Some are reflective. Some are strategic. All of them are written from the middle of the work, not after it’s polished.

Laura Hyatt Laura Hyatt

Stamped Stories: Lessons from a Decade of Travel

I submitted my passport renewal the other day. (The fact that this can be done completely online now is both amazing and a little scary.) As one does, I flipped through the pages of my old passport book.

There it was. Ten years of my life pressed between stamps and smudges of ink.

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