My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.