Meet Eddie Lin

We were lucky to catch up with Eddie Lin recently and have shared our conversation below.

Eddie, appreciate you making time for us and sharing your wisdom with the community. So many of us go through similar pain points throughout our journeys and so hearing about how others overcame obstacles can be helpful. One of those struggles is keeping creativity alive despite all the stresses, challenges and problems we might be dealing with. How do you keep your creativity alive?

I think creativity comes from staying curious and excited about everything around you! I try to be open-minded and always ready to learn new things, whether it’s exploring a new skill or talking to people with different stories. I love paying attention to small details that make me smile, like how colors play together or the way light changes. But the most important thing is to enjoy every single tiny moment in your life. When you slow down and appreciate these little moments, you start seeing beauty and amazing stories everywhere. That’s where my best ideas come from, not from stressing about it, but from staying positive and letting life inspire you naturally!

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

By day, I’m a brand designer, working on brand identity and visual systems. Outside of work, I’m also a minimalist photographer, and I love how both sides of my creative work inspire each other.

As an immigrant building a new life in the U.S., the biggest challenge has been dealing with uncertainty. When the world feels chaotic or unpredictable, photography becomes like meditation for me, helping me slow down and truly pay attention in a world that moves so fast. These quiet spaces I capture become my way of finding balance and grounding. With my design background, I naturally notice lines, shapes, and colors, but photography lets me go deeper. I can play with 3D space and try to frame objects in a 2D photo. I love capturing how lights and shadows interact with vibrant colors, especially in urban architecture, revealing peaceful yet vivid corners that most people walk right past.

This year, I’m honored to partner with Docu Magazine to publish a photo zine that showcases this quiet corner philosophy. It’s a collection of my minimalist photography that invites you to pause, look closer, and discover the overlooked beauty around you. Those small details can be the most meaningful if we just take the time to notice them.

Docu Magazine Special Edition: Eddie Lin is now available at https://docuspecials.com/shop/eddie-lin

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I want to stay true to my younger self. When I was a kid, I made a promise that I would become the kind of adult I’d be excited to meet. You know how children see the world with such wonder and curiosity? I don’t want to lose that or disappoint my younger self. So I try to approach each day like it’s my first time here, staying open to surprise and beauty in unexpected places. It’s easy to become cynical or jaded as we get older, but I think there’s something powerful about holding onto that childlike sense of discovery. I’m constantly trying to see things fresh, to notice details that might spark the same excitement I felt as a kid exploring something new. That sense of wonder keeps me grounded and reminds me why I fell in love with creating in the first place.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

I really connected with The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, especially the part about awareness. He talks about how we can quiet what’s inside to notice more of the outside, or quiet the outside to notice what’s happening within. And how we can zoom in so close that we see details we’ve never noticed before, or zoom out so far that the scene looks completely different. That idea resonates with me and with my “Quiet Corners” concept.
I try to live with that awareness every day, whether I’m walking through the city with my phone or a camera, working on design, or simply noticing patterns, colors, and textures around me. Sometimes I get close enough to see how natural light and man-made architecture interact, other times I step back to take in the bigger picture. Like Rubin says, it’s not about looking harder, it’s about knowing when to tune in and when to tune out. That’s how I find those quiet corners in the chaos that most people pass by without seeing.

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