Quotes by Debbie Millman - Page 1

Everything in our world is branded.
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Branded
Our World
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Branding is deliberate differentiation.
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Deliberate
Differentiation
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Courage is the birthplace of confidence.
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Confidence
Courage
Birthplace
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No one likes someone who's really overconfident.
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Overconfident
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Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.
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Perceptions
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Never give up if it is something that you really want.
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Never Give Up
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I find working on brands some of the most interesting work you can do.
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Brands
Interesting Work
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I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.
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Drawing
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Even though brands are created by people, they belong to the corporations.
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Brands
Corporations
Belong
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Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.
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Candidate
Effectively
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I don't regret the decisions that I've made. I really truly understand why I made them.
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Regret
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Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
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Essence
Language
Storytelling
Visual Storytelling
Visual
Both
Pass
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I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.
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February
Telephone
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Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.
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Elegant
Timeless
Airlines
Designed
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I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.
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Cool Love Work
Apple
Love Cool Work
Ipad
Pencil
Pro
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One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.
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Advice
Long Time
Worthwhile
Time Long Remember
Bit
Takes
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In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.
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Embedded
Initiative
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Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.
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Brands
Corporation
Evolving
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If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.
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Musical Theater
Pursued
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You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.
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Code
Middle Aged
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'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better.
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Money Believe Better
Exchange
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Authenticity in branding requires a step by step, measured methodology that doesn't veer from a brand's key identity.
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Methodology
Measured
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Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.
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Design
Environment
Linked
Inextricably
Interact
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Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.
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Human Spirit
Manifestation
Profound
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We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.
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Constructs
Telegraph
Believe World Look
Look World Believe
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No matter how bleak the situation into which we have been thrown by the global economy, it does offer opportunities. Designers need only invent them.
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Bleak
Global Economy
Thrown
Designers
Invent
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LaCroix is deftly devoted to its zealots, and this is a classic case study of how lavishly loving your constituents is the best way to get them to buy more.
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Best Way
Classic
Devoted
Best Your Way
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A brand is simply a set of beliefs. And if you don't create a set of beliefs around your products or services, well, you stand for nothing - you have no values and no vision.
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Products
Vision
Stand
Beliefs
Brand
Create
Simply
Services
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Millennials don't want to be bombarded by ads. But what is so interesting to me, though, is how willingly they accept native content. Or native advertising - it's not even native content.
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Ads
Bombarded
Millennials
Native
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I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.
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Code
Agile
Grade
Spanish
Third
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People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.
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Attention
Color
Numbers
People Will See
Understand
Read
Foremost
Front
Put
Shape
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Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique.
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Design
Creative
Creative Process
Elements
Expressive
Intimate
Narrative
Process
Technique
Traditional
Visual Storytelling
Visual
Enhance
Interpretive
Resulting
Story
Text
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Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo Box to art, artists and designers have been blurring the lines between fine art and commerce.
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Commerce
Mass
Objects
Soup
Warhol
Andy
Campbell
Designers
Duchamp
Elevated
Fine Art
Marcel
Mass Market
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My most memorable design-related encounter was also one of my most life-changing. I met Joyce Rutter Kaye, 'Print''s editor-in-chief from 1998-2008. It was at 6 A.M. on a cross-country flight from New York to Vancouver for the 2003 National AIGA conference.
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Flight
Joyce
Life Changing
Memorable
Vancouver
Conference
Encounter
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The thing that I like about magazines, paper magazines, and papers in any kind of tangible format is the surprise factor of turning the page and not necessarily knowing what you're going to see. You're not looking for something. You're just experiencing something.
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Format
Papers
Surprise
Tangible
Factor
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Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors.
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Contrast
Effects
Impression
Special Effects
Stature
Substance
Unusual
Your People Will
Accomplishments
Colors
Concentrate
Shades
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Actually - and ironically - people aren't really interested in a new brand form or flavor as much as they are interested in how a brand can change, impact, or improve their lives. They want brands around them that make them feel special and provide some social cache or confidence.
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Brands
Flavor
Ironically
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Humans metabolize their purchases very quickly, even if it seemed worth it for any number of reasons when you first bought it. After some time passes, people will go back to feeling the baseline feelings they had previously felt about themselves, no matter how shiny the object, the hair, or the experience.
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Time Passes
Worth It
Time Experience People
Object
Passes
Purchases
Shiny
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