Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.
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 goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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.
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.
Great design is serious, not solemn
Design really can be anything.
Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.
What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".
I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design "norm"that I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.
I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far more limited to a specific kind of work, and I've been able to establish an incredibly broad practice in all different ways, and it's because the expectations have gotten elevated.
