The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.
Brand identity is too often limited to personal style.
The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Web design is responsive design. Responsive web design is web design, done right.
Designers don’t actually solve problems. They work through them.
A design is a designer’s mind in a suit.
Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.
Design is more about the process than it is about the resulting prettiness.
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorage never emerged from a formula.
I think what I feel fortunate about is that I am still astonished – that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s a great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears; where you basically have to admit you never learn it.
If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
Observation and imitation are so often the steps to creative maturation. An insightful person can turn these into innovation.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly… yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter....
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.
The design business continues to navel gaze. Designers are still designing for other designers rather than working to convince the business world of the importance of design in our everyday lives.
I’ve been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.