No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.
If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.