Der legendäre Schöpfer des I♥NY-Logo ist gestorben – Milton Glaser – und Maria Popova hat in ihrem immer wieder wunderbaren Blog Brainpickings einen Nachruf auf den Grafikdesigner, Illustrator und Lehrer geschrieben, der voller großer Zitate und Weisheiten ist: Was Glaser übers Leben und übers Arbeiten wusste, würde ich mir auf T-Shirts drucken, wenn es nicht zu schade um sie wäre. So wie diese Beschreibung aus seiner Kindheit, die seinen kreativen Prozess widerspiegelt:

I was eight years old, and I had rheumatic fever. I was at home and in bed for a year. In a certain sense, the only thing that kept me alive was this: Every day, my mother would bring me a wooden board and a pound of modeling clay, and I would create a little universe out of houses, tanks, warriors. At the end of the day, I would pound them into oblivion and look forward to the next day when I could recreate the world.

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I think that, to some degree, this is part of my character as a designer: To keep moving and not get stuck in my own past. This is what I try very hard to do.

Oder seine Auffassung davon, was einen guten Lehrer ausmacht:

What you teach is what you are. You don’t teach by telling people things.

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I believe that you convey your ideas by the authenticity of your being. Not by glibly telling someone what to do or how to do it. I believe that this is why so much teaching is ineffective. … Good teaching is merely having an encounter with someone who has an idea of what life is that you admire and want to emulate.