Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

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.

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.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!