Nobody asked for this
Graphic designer and painter Paula Scher on how to make something great:
"Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."
"Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."
"I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."
—Saul Bass
Bill taught me a lot about design. He believed that design isn’t just about the surface of a building or the pixels or an interface — rather it’s about the end-to-end experience of a building or a product, and its about its purpose. Design is the first signal of intent that a founder brings to an idea. Intent is important to consider as a bui
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Disability is too interesting to have to decide between pure practicality and raw beauty. Misfit states beg for art and engineering and design. It was design that allowed me to insist on a world that included ordinary stuff that works, but also stuff that sings. Utility and significance, solutions and questions, held open.