You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.

Khoi Vinh

Categorized in : Way Self Design

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

reputation hate thinking

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

design people thinking

I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.

workspace trying believe

You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

absolutes realistic balance

I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

characteristics internet thinking

Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It's a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar.

design expression may

I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to a lot of people. So, I think there's a lot of value that print designers have.

would-be people thinking