Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.
If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.
There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.
No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.
There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.
I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail. . . a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.