Eat breakfast.
Quiet is always an option, even if everyone is yelling.
Libraries are a good place. The books are free there, and it smells great.
Buy lightly used. Patina is a pretty word, and a beautiful concept.
Develop a point of view. Think about what experiences you have that many others do not.
Then, think of what experiences you have that almost everyone else has.
Then, mix those two things and try to make someone cry or laugh or feel understood.
Print it out, chop it up, put it back together.
Draw wrong-handed and upside down and backwards.
Find a good seat outside.
Design is just a language, it’s not a message.
If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to them for dear life. Sympathy is medicine.
Edit yourself, but let someone else censor you.
Most important things happen at a table. Food, friends, discussion, ideas, work, peace talks, and war plans.
Frank Chimero, Anonymous asked: What advice would you give to a graphic design student?
