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No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.
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If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer.
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It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.
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I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.
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How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
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Be stimulated by rejection.
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It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
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I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
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Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.
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Counter the effects of culture steering your design ideas by going out and looking for new experiences.
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When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
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There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.
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The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.
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We need practice solving problems.