Occupation: Graphic Designer Birth: 1966
The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again..
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, ….
Simplicity and complexity need each other..
Knowledge makes everything simpler..
We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences….
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of f….
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful..
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem..
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence..
People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done..
Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions..
Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear..
When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working..
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction..
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together..
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expa….
If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things..
All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them..
Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers..
The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squ….
What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanize….