“I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.” ThinkingHateReputationDesignerLove HateGridsLove Hate Relationship Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to a lot of people. So, I think there's a lot of value that print designers have.” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsWould BeValuesProcessResultsTomorrowDesignerPrintDisturbingEnd Results Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.” ThinkingWayEndsDoneWholeHandsTechnologyPiecesCenturyDesignReaderInternetProjectsSolutionsCustomersDesignerOnline20th CenturyEquationsPostersInternet TechnologyBrochures Author:Khoi Vinh
“Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.” ThinkingWayAudienceMediaDesignSeriousProductsHumbleDesignerThoughtfulDigitalDigital Media Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.” ThinkingIdeasTodayWishMiddleCenturyExpressionCreatingToolsSelfishDesigner20th CenturyNorm Author:Khoi Vinh
“Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.” PeopleMayHardHelpingSeemsRememberFunEffortWorstDesignHard WorkSourceOriginalsAssumingDesignerImperfectTerrificRedesign Author:Khoi Vinh
