Occupation: Graphic Designer Birth: October 6, 1948
I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and wa….
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job..
Design always has a purpose..
Design really can be anything..
You have to have a lot of kids..
If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me..
I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us..
What makes me say "wow" is usually something I haven't encountered, in a new way... something I haven't encountered before or something I have encoun….
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning..
My expectation is that technology always changes..
I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a n….
When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild..
It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all….
I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules ….
If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working..
Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War..
Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing..
Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxi….
As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction..
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be three dimensional, it may b….
I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design..