Occupation: Designer Birth: October 25, 1959
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are….
Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures….
Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world..
Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth..
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, b….
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and p….
Now that we can do anything what will we do?.
Design the life that you want to live..
Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of expl….
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question..
When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters..
For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future..
Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black..
For me, sensibility is the location of talent. Sensibility comes first because only with the right kind of sensibility is talent useful. I've met man….
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight..
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable..
To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while..
Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, i….
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is..