Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.
Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.
Videogames are indeed design: They’re sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
If you have no fear, no one has power over you.
I have a confession: I’m not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn’t have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn’t have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
Artists change how we see the world – and that can have value in the way people do business.
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the ‘bottom line’ and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.
Creativity’s about ownership.
I don’t really love computers.
Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.
The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
The best scientists that I’ve met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.