Boring words

'Most [graphic] designers are not very good copywriters. So, if you find yourself having to design something with boring words, don't try to make them interesting. Let the images do the heavy lifting.' Bob Gill, Pentagram

Innovative people with great ideas

"We [Brits] rally against the status quo. Look at our creative industries like advertising that win loads of awards, our TV too, and our comedians. That's down to an anarchic point of view that's always measured with a degree of pragmatism. We're not playing fairies with felt-tip pens; we're an innovative people with great ideas." Dick Powell

iLagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld, a "paper freak" who does not use email, and has a personal library of some 300,000 books, owns four iPhones and several iPads which he uses as diaries and sketchbooks.

"I use it [iPad] mostly for sketching. I'm very good at it. I discovered a technique. It's like engraving. Really not bad. There is no Photoshop. You have to know how to sketch. It's not something done with the help of computers. I hate computer sketches because they're all the same. They have no personality. If you want to see how it works... Voila! [Click.] This is the brush. [Click.] This is how thick you want the line. [Click.] And then here are the colours. [Click.] You want red, maybe? [Click.] He sketches a line with his fingernail ... Unbelievable, no? It's better with the special pen and I'm not going to keep it because it's nothing. And so then you do this. [Click.] And this. [Click.] And it disappears. I have iPads in every room ..." (Karl Lagerfeld talks to Susannah Frankel; Article published in the Independent, November 5, 2011)