“We have a million fonts, a million colors, and a million piles of shit leaving our fingers all day long. It’s just sad to me, because when you look at this [vintage ephemera], it’s just about communication. One font and a thing called hierarchy.”
“Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It’s cool or it’s crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.”
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
“We won’t get you where you’re going any faster, but it’ll feel like it.”
Branif Airways
“The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really; and especially you don’t have any idea about where they’re going to come from tomorrow.”
Hal Riney in Art & Copy
“Young man, have a skill that people value.”
Some Millionaire when asked how to be successful
“When I met designers and graphic designers and artists and artisans and, sort of, like, these cultural elites, it was this instantaneous, like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t even hang with these people…’ You got this sense of, like, you couldn’t hang with these people. So that’s always scared me about building some life in design. I don’t ever want to be unapproachable.”
“If something’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
Howard Gossage
“…avoid anything that feels like fake sincerity (esp. where it may touch money).”
“Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”