Design Thought Leader

Consciousness of simple order and basic principles
is one of the most important matters for the
creative worker.

Armin Hofmann
Graphic Designer

Shoot? Look at me. Do I have a gun?
I’m a photographer.

Julius Shulman
Photographer

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens
Novelist

Designers decide and design the flow, the copy, the structure of the page, the programmers make all of it come to life by plugging it into the backend. All along both parties trade concessions on how to get the feature done as fast possible by grabbing the easiest value.

So stop thinking about designers as artists who work in a different universe of neat graphics and start thinking of them as someone who decides what goes where, which form elements to use, how to split features between screens, what words to use, and how everything fits together in a coherent experience.

David Heinemeier Hansson
Programmer

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the buildings we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kind of happiness.

Alain De Botton
Writer

I don’t always shop by words.

Chris Glass
Creative fella from a small town in southwestern ohio

It’s like, ‘What can we do that would be weird? Well, we could just play a ton,’ you know? And see what happens, and get the endorphins running, and everything gets crazy. It feels cool, you know?

Bill Gray
Bassist, The Mae Shi

My father had a cuisine of generosity, and I try to do the same, but by reducing things. Where we used to use a ladle for our sauces, now we use a spoon.

Anne-Sophie Pic
Chef