Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.
I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.
Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.
The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.
Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.
Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.