“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?”
— John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry: We are all designers
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“An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.”
— John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry: We are all designers
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“The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.”
— John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry: We are all designers
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“Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.”
— John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry: We are all designers
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