It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.
Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
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.
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.
You are what you are seen to be.
In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in Powers, green means powerless, and red means power. The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.
That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was.