Words have meaning, type has spirit.
Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.
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.
The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.
The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
Design exists to serve some purpose.
The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.
Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
Design always has a purpose.
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 fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.
I'm most proud of the fact that I get to keep growing.
Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.
If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.
Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
Great design is serious, not solemn
I like what I do. So why would I want to stop doing it?
I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.
Design really can be anything.
Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.
When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
Beige is the color of indecision.
