
“Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good.” Paul Rand

How we think about design · Resend
resend.comWhen you compete to be the best, you imitate. When you compete to be unique, you innovate.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” A designer of simple ideas should aspire to the same goal: knowing how much can be wrung out of an idea before it begins to lose its essence.
Dan Heath • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein