Kinfolk

He spoke to over 100 people — everyone from a cabdriver to a stockbroker, from a grave digger to a jazz musician. Their anecdotes led Terkel to conclude that work was ultimately “a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

If you ask why and never settle for just because, then you have the power to crack problems. That’s the moment when your design becomes full of promises and avenues open up.

I think naivete is one of the strongest motivators. I tell design students before they start their own studio to really, really think about it. Go to the mountains. Spend some time alone. If they come back completely sure that there’s nothing else in the world that they would rather be doing, only then do I tell them to go for it.

I think the aim of the dealer should be to show the client new things.