If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place.

    What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

- Milton Glaser (Happy Birthday)

[ quote via Brianpickings ] 

Where do you look for design inspiration?

"Mostly by paying attention to and understanding what readers want to do. However sometimes I realize that we might have been focusing too long on a particular task we are trying to achieve. That’s when I decide to go off the grid for a few days. I try to find areas without cellphone reception where I can go on a spiritual retreat, where I can focus on simple every day tasks. I know that when I come back, I’ll be able to look at our work with fresh eyes. And every single time I get the opportunity to do this, I always feel like we find a new turning point".

From Mashable’s article on Marcos Weskamp, the head of design at Flipboard. Click on the image to view his photoblog.

Some masterful poster art by Akiko Stehrenberger.

Akiko got her start freelancing as an editorial illustrator and experimenting with paint and Photoshop by night. 

Here’s an interview with her from Interview Magazine if you want to know more.

“Fostering a design signature that matches solid concepts with finespun, sometimes comic or dark allusions, her posters are never burdened with quirk or confession. A movie’s intrigue is baited with subtle implication”.

Check out more of her work here.