“I always thought about, in early life, our objective,
certainly people in the design profession, is to look professional, and to feel
professional…. and you wanted to have that veneer and that sense of authority…
and it was all we really wanted to do – you come out of school and you want
your work to look like these marvellously slick, professional things that were
in the world…”
“And then at a certain point, you reach professional level,
and your work looks like that, and you realize its not enough. That merely, getting to a point where your
work looks good enough to be called professional is just the starting point.”
“…as a metaphor… when you start to learn how to draw… you
are so overwhelmed with the difficulty with making things look like what they
are… and you almost die trying to control your nerve endings so that the object
looks like its supposed to, and you spend years doing that. And then finally
you get to the point when you finally draw something that looks like what they
are.”
“And then you discover, that’s not the point. That being able to draw something that looks
like something, is nothing. That that is
only the starting point. Now you have to
ask yourself, how do I make a good drawing, or an expressive drawing, or a
drawing that means something. Because
the ability to only make it accurate, is actually a low-level ability. Even though its taken you years to get to
that point, its not very relevant. But
there’s no other way to get there.
-Milton Glaser, Design Matters
A metaphor that, I think, applies to all aspects of work,
and anyone who wants to be truly great at what they do.
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