If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.

Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper and lower case. Punctuation and alternate characters and numbers - let's not forget numbers - can add another 40 or so.

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.