Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Chip KiddLife is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
Chip KiddKiddies, 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.
Chip Kidd