When I am holding Henry and I tickle him, I can feel him laughing all the way to his toes. And I realize, my God, I had forgotten, I had completely forgotten how unbelievably, inexplicably wonderful it is that any of us exist at all.”
To us the idea of ‘craft’ isn’t about handmade; it’s about taking care, loving what you’re doing.”
Ian Coyle & Duane King @ PDX Creative Mornings
Working on the right thing is more important than working hard.”
“Talent is the desire to practice. […] Merely doing your job every day doesn’t qualify as real practice.”
As a designer […] my role is more frequently to generate desire in other people; to make them want. And the reason I’m so prone to want to look at the work I do from now on as a gift is because a gift promises to satiate that desire in some way.
[…] So maybe instead of using it to make people want things I can use the same skills to give them things that satiate those same desires.”
If we want to make good design, if we want to do good things on the web, we need to have messages we believe and we need to gift them to people that we care about.”
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
Joseph Conrad
“Cheap booze is a false economy.”
The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights.”
“It’s a subtractive process not an additive process. It’s not about ornamentation – it’s about removing things, about getting to the essence of things.”