This Feels Like Me – Sketches, Notes, Stories, and Slow Design

Lately, I’ve found myself pausing while scrolling through my own Instagram feed. [https://www.instagram.com/sheerazwania]

It’s a mix of everything, my Etsy art prints, behind-the-scenes glimpses of my Design for Peace project, snapshots of student work, thoughts on design education, and the occasional photo of a book that left a mark. No single aesthetic binds it all together. No consistent filter or grid. Just a visual stream-of-consciousness.

It reflects all the pieces of me: a graphic designer and visual storyteller, a design educator, an urban explorer, a travel addict. Books are my constant, and tea is my quiet companion.

It’s not just what I do. It’s how I live and think and function.

And you know what? I’ve come to really love that.

This ‘mash-up’ might not follow the rules of traditional social media aesthetics, but who wrote those rules anyway?
Curation doesn’t have to mean clean lines and rigid categories. It can also mean honesty, intention, and the courage to show things in progress. To me, this space is curated – just differently. It’s layered. It’s lived-in, and it reflects the way creative minds naturally work: weaving together the personal, the political, the poetic.

There was a time I felt the need and the pressure to keep things separated. To post maybe only ‘sellable’ content. To choose one hat to wear: Artist? Educator? Researcher? Designer with a conscience? But I’ve realised, that at least for me, those roles don’t compete, they coexist. I don’t draw a line between design and peace, or between teaching and learning, so why should my social media feed. The mix is the message 😉

I’ve also come to see my feed not just as a portfolio, but as a process. A sketchbook. A design journal. A way to document the journey of making, whether that’s making art, meaning, or sense of the world around me.

So if you’re here for the ride – thank you.
Whether you came for a city print or stayed for a slow design post, I hope you find something that resonates, even in the in-between.

This may not be a brand in the traditional sense, but it is a brand. One rooted in curiosity, reflection, layered thinking, and honest expression.

Creative minds rarely move in a straight line. We zigzag, we loop back, we leap across disciplines. We don’t always work in categories, and maybe that’s the point.
This space reflects that: a living archive of experiments, insights, passions, and processes.

It’s evolving. And I’m glad you’re part of it.