A former professor of mine told me “you can’t shit if you don’t eat”. What she meant was that I needed to learn a balance between creative input and output. As a designer if you work too hard for too long, you start to loose the joy in what you do and that’s a death-knell for your career.

So reading this about elBulli, the Best Resturant in the World, certainly caught my attention:

elBulli, which boasts three stars in the Michelin guide, will close to the public in 2012 and 2013 but continue to serve as a research lab, and then reopen in 2014.

During this time, all the know-how about elaborations, techniques and styles acquired after 30 years of creative research will be analyzed, and the results of said work will be compiled in a comprehensive a thorough encyclopedia

Ballsy and potentially brilliant.

Great Birthday Dinner at WD50, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.

Photo Credit: Michael O’Boyle. See this and other amazing food photographs at the Chicken Fried Gourmet