1.
Be stimulated by rejection
Bob Gill
2.
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
Bob Gill
3.
Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
Bob Gill
4.
When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
Bob Gill
5.
How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
Bob Gill
6.
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Bob Gill
7.
Once you have the statement, it will design itself.
Bob Gill
8.
Forget all the rules you ever learned
about graphic design.
Bob Gill
9.
No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.
Sometimes it's even better.
Bob Gill
10.
Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
Bob Gill
11.
The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.
Bob Gill
12.
I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.
Bob Gill
13.
There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.
Bob Gill
14.
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
Bob Gill
15.
We need practice solving problems.
Bob Gill
16.
It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.
Bob Gill