Excerpt from an interview with the members of Distinctive Repetition on 01/12/2023.

Distinctive Repetition is an award-winning graphic design studio based in Dublin, Ireland. Principal designer and ICAD (Institute of Creative Advertising and Design) past-president, Rossi McAuley, is joined in this interview by designers Jenny Leahy and Ben Nagle. This interview was carried out around a table with the interviewer in the bottom right corner (◲) and the three members of the studio in the other three seats.

• ◲: whats your favourite colour?
• ◰: red.
• ◲: red.
• ◱: really? thats it? are you fucking kidding me?
• ◰: do i fill it in?
• ◳: they're warm up questions obviously they're to get you comfortable answering questions.
• ◱: this is where you avoid giving us your fucking nice colour you're such a
• ◳: yellow
• ◲: if the seat of your consciousness was in your hands, like all of your feelings and your thoughts and your desires and your emotions come through your hands, can you describe to me the day that you've had so far please?
• ◰: that's fantastic
• ◱: aww i love it
• ◳: jelly that's not quite solid
• ◱: answer the fucking question
• ◳: not quite solidified in the fridge yet
• ◱: answer the question
• ◳: and its just oozing through my fingers.
• ◱: answer the question. 
• (redacted sentence)
• ◳: that's what today has been like but its my brain thats oozing out of me.
• ◲: yes. that's a good answer. ok will we keep going in a circle?
• ◱: whatever you like bro.
• ◲: do you ever dream about work?
• ◱: all the time.
• ◲: would you care to share one of those dreams?
• ◱: they're always angst-ridden, never, they're never eh, they're never positive solution-solved things, we've always like lists and lists and lists of things to do they're never resolved they're always like shit we've, its, its always problematic, and its all the time.
• ◳: weren't you taking grids out of drawers in a dream recently?
• ◱: yeah yeah.
• (obscured)
• ◲: why were you taking grids out of drawers?
• ◱: emm recently I had a dream where I was giving out to ◳ about not having things done, this ◳, participant two, about not having things done, and i was opening up drawers in my office and I was like, just use this grid and the drawers were full of grids and I was giving them to her and saying just fucking use those grids for fucks sake why don't we use those grids.
• (next section redacted by request of interviewees.)