Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
Milton Glaser
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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.
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.
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've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.
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.
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.
Color is so intuitive.
