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Color is so intuitive.
Less isn't more; just enough is more.
I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.
I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.
The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.
Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.