Occupation: Graphic Designer Birth: October 6, 1948
It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds..
Really, everything is designed..
Words have meaning, type has spirit..
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good..
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,”….
Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?.
The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be.
Beige is the color of indecision..
Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible..
Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved.
All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot..
Planning involves considering how other people may use something..
My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that doe….
Marketing is a necessary part of the creative process..
Marketing is neither good nor evil..
You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing..
Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can ….
I love that the level of mediocrity rises..
I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do..
To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is..
Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being ….