Put this over your desk: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller knew stuff.

You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.

You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.

Design is not what we make. Design is what we make possible.

Experience. Don’t observe.

Inhale. Don’t read.

Transfigure. Don’t shift.

Advocate. Don’t ponder.

Prove. Don’t promise.

Encourage. Don’t cut.

Imagine. Don’t worry.

Do. Don’t analyze.

Hear. Don’t listen.

Show. Don’t tell.

Give. Don’t take.

The era of problem-solving is gone. It’s too reactive in a world where the future arrives too fast. Designers must now be problem seekers, finding and anticipating problems before they arrive on our desks, because at that point, it’s already too late.

Design is the bridge that gets us from where we are to where we should be. It is future-making.

When you submit a fee for your work, someone will always ask, “Is this negotiable?” Answer with this: “Yes. Up.”

Perhaps. Maybe. Possibly. Someday. These are among the most damaging words a creative person can use. Lose them.