When I read his interviews, I've never seen blatant ego...I've seen a kind of undeniable confidence that translates from the fact you can tell he doesn't pick and choose his words too carefully.
Designers and artists aren't supposed to be spokespeople. They're supposed to ramble and put their foot into their mouths once in a while.
The same kind of semi-controlled recklessness that creates new visions and creative directions is the same side of the brain that does interviews. He could play it safe and reserved and calculated but clearly he tends to ramble openly (and I mean that in a good way) when a lot of designers would be very cautious and careful with questions.
I respect that about him and I can see that side in some of his work...he probably does some pieces even though he knows they won't be necessarily successful out of impulse and instinct.
And I think that separates the men from the boys...pursuing instinct in creation rather than calculated (ie: marketable) sensibility if that makes sense.
More than anything, I like the fact that he seems to take it all with a grain of salt. From beginning to end...from his success to his failures or limitations, his imitators, the financial and business aspects to the very future of his lines...I think even if I wasn't a fan of his work, I could at least read his interviews and very much appreciate his approach to everything.
The very fact that he understands that he has to on some level inject the 'common man' into what he creates says a lot about him.
Designers and artists aren't supposed to be spokespeople. They're supposed to ramble and put their foot into their mouths once in a while.
The same kind of semi-controlled recklessness that creates new visions and creative directions is the same side of the brain that does interviews. He could play it safe and reserved and calculated but clearly he tends to ramble openly (and I mean that in a good way) when a lot of designers would be very cautious and careful with questions.
I respect that about him and I can see that side in some of his work...he probably does some pieces even though he knows they won't be necessarily successful out of impulse and instinct.
And I think that separates the men from the boys...pursuing instinct in creation rather than calculated (ie: marketable) sensibility if that makes sense.
More than anything, I like the fact that he seems to take it all with a grain of salt. From beginning to end...from his success to his failures or limitations, his imitators, the financial and business aspects to the very future of his lines...I think even if I wasn't a fan of his work, I could at least read his interviews and very much appreciate his approach to everything.
The very fact that he understands that he has to on some level inject the 'common man' into what he creates says a lot about him.
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