Bob Gill on culture
Bob Gill10 quotes“How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.”
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We need practice solving problems.
Bob GillBob Gill Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
Bob GillBob Gill Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson If you haven’t read Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Bob GillBob Gill I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside…that’s why I’ve never had a job.
Bob GillBob Gill Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
Bob GillBob Gill No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it’s even better.
Bob GillBob Gill There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.
Bob GillBob Gill Be stimulated by rejection
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.
Aeriel MirandaAeriel Miranda How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
Afrika BambaataaAfrika Bambaataa The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
Aga Khan IVAga Khan IV When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
Afrika BambaataaAfrika Bambaataa Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
Afrika BambaataaAfrika Bambaataa What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It’s so deeply ingrained in the culture.
Aeriel MirandaAeriel Miranda