QUOTATIONS
HAND FLOW
“The pressure of the hand causes the springs of life to flow.”
– Tokujiro Namikoshi
MAKING STUFF
“So many of the designers that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops in design schools are expensive and computers are cheaper” “That’s just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.”
– Apple’s head designer Jonathan Ive
“The things that keep me going are very, let say, expressive things like making music, like painting pictures, like creating cars also the giving thing, the creating, the MAKING STUFF refilled my batteries.”
– Anders Warming, Head of MINI Design
DESIGN IS LIKE COOKING
‘le design c’est comme la cuisine, il faut tous les ingrédients sur la table.’
Design is like cooking you need all the ingredients on the table.
– Patrick Giraud
CREATING EMPTY SPACES
‘le graphisme, le design c’est la gestion des espaces blancs, c’est comme la musique, ce qui fait la beauté d’une musique, c’est de savoir gérer les silences.’
The important thing is the management of white space, it’s like the music, making the beauty of music is able to manage the silences. ‘
– Patrick Giraud
FREE YOUR HAND
‘Pour réussir un dessin, il faut être libre du début à la fin’
You have to be free from the beginning to the end of a drawing to get the best result possible.
– Patrick Giraud
DRAWING IS A SPORT
Si vous jouer au tennis avec le poignet vous n’avez aucune force comme en dessin le corps doit créer le mouvement.
Le dessin est un sport, il devrait être aux jeux olympiques!
If you play tennis by the wrist you have no strength just like with sketching all your body has to create the movement.
Drawing is a sport, it should be part of the olympic games!
– Patrick Giraud
VISION WITH POETIC CHAOS
Pour créer vous devez avoir une vision, un recul pour apercevoir la ligne d’horizon. Alors, une force vous porte et vous permet dans un chaos poétique de faire des connections, des mariages d’éléments comme un jazzman ou disc jockey.
To create you need a vision, a step backward to see the horizon line. Then, a feeling drives you in a poetic chaos to make connections, to merge things and remix the matter like a jazzman or a disc jokey.
– Patrick Giraud