I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.
Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo Box to art, artists and designers have been blurring the lines between fine art and commerce.
Courage is the birthplace of confidence.
We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.
Branding is deliberate differentiation.
Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.
I find working on brands some of the most interesting work you can do.
Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique.
Authenticity in branding requires a step by step, measured methodology that doesn't veer from a brand's key identity.
No one likes someone who's really overconfident.
Humans metabolize their purchases very quickly, even if it seemed worth it for any number of reasons when you first bought it. After some time passes, people will go back to feeling the baseline feelings they had previously felt about themselves, no matter how shiny the object, the hair, or the experience.
Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
