Hilman Curtis

Paula Scher:
The thing that interested me most about what she said was when she was talking about process, and that her best stuff comes to her really quick and that she is not a refiner. I think just about everything we've ever learned about designing and creating things is about the initial idea, but then refining, refining, and refining more until it's perfect. I like the fact that she can come up with something and it be gold without making adjustments...like the citi bank logo she drew on a napkin. A lot of people need those refinements to produce their best work. I can kind of relate it to poetry because in every poetry class i've been in, they want you to edit and revise and blah blah blah, but for me, when i write, my mind is editing at the same time, so most of the time its near perfect when i write it down...at least perfect for me. So I guess it just depends on the person, and the project, about how many times its going to need to be refined.

David Carson:
I think that it's really important to put yourself into your work, because especially if you're not as interested in a particular project, if you put who you are into it, it automatically becomes more interesting, and you want to become more invested in it, because human beings love themselves. And I have always believed that people's best work is done when they themselves are interested and into the subject, or project. I thought he made another good point about the starting point being to interpret, not to make it pretty, ugly, amazing, or anything. First you have to understand it, and determine how to interpret everything so the audience will see it too. That means, you have to understand it first. Way before you decide how its going to look.

Milton Glaser:
This one was kind of like a philosophical one, when he said that "art brings people together so they have something in common, which keeps them from killing each other" which I have to kind of agree. Art is its own special little animal that a lot of people don't understand. Someone has to keep it alive so that the world's cultures survive. Like he said art is the "gift." Everyone should embrace it, not just those who create it. The last point he said about if you can sustain interest in what you're doing for your whole life, you're lucky because a lot of people get tired, and bored. I think that's the goal and hope of everyone, to find something that won't ever dry up.