surrounded

these are the quotes that surround me at work:

if a man loudly blesses his neighbor in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
-proverbs 27.14

our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
-mlk jr.

live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
-henry david thoreau

the best inspiration is a deadline.
-from adobe's momentum in print '06 conference

the biggest gift from my childhood was wanderlust... travel became my creatave muse. in a nation of workaholics, in a profession of obsessive-compulsives, the ability to put everything aside, leave your surroundings, and simply absorb is the only way for me to keep from getting burned out on design and on life in general. travel awakens every sense. you have a new palette of colors, new smells, new forms, new everything. there is never a time you return from a trip and don't have a new idea. it's my life-fuel.
-genevieve gorder, from tlc's trading spaces

typographers & type designers invariably share an editor's obsession with even the smallest details.
-rick poyner

design must always be in service to solving a problem, or it's not design, it's art.
-the cheese monkeys, by chip kidd

life is not a problem to be solved; it is an adventure to be lived... he rigged the world in such a way that it only works when we embrace risk as the theme of our lives, which is to say, only when we live by faith.
-wild at heart, by john eldredge

days sweep past like gusts of wind that bring immense, though often unrecorded, change.
-in an email from my friend elizabeth

does God care more about nose rings or urban decay?
-what's so amazing about grace visual edition, by philip yancey

if you don't understand it, don't design it
-in an aiga email last year

embrace beauty, love God, live life to the fullest
-from kyle lake's last sermon

surrounding myself with good friends, smart clients, energetic and talented staff, and fair competitors keeps me passionate about design
-tim larsen, on a coaster from design camp '05

and on one of my cube walls, in rosewood type, 2 inches tall:
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED
-genesis 1.1


perhaps I'll expand on these in future posts?


for now, let me share two funny things I saw on on i25 on my way to work today:
1. a brand new bright yellow school bus from oklahoma towing a pickup truck, flashers and all
2. a man driving a dirty old blue subaru outback, sunglasses, hat, window open... brushing his teeth!

someday people will have cameras implanted in their brains. if that were today, I could have zapped those images into this post and you could see for yourself the oddities of which I speak. apparently my tiny digi cam and my camera phone just aren't enough.