You're authentic when you're honest.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

To touch somebody’s heart with design.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.

At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.

Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.