Chapter ten:
- "If you call yourself an illustrator, you can also be a designer. If you call yourself a designer, you can still illustrate. This may be a renaissance—if only for the moment."
- "My goal is to intrigue, surprise, and amuse as many people as possible."
- takes inspiration from everywhere: books, paintings, fellow designers, history, photography...
- not just an illustrator, also a curator
- multiple-award winning illustrator and part of the first generation to design on computers
- made multiple jumps to learn photography, physical and digital design, typesetting, etc. for an impressive portfolio
- "The better known you are as an illustrator with a certain style, the harder it is to change directions. Big ships require much more time and energy to turn around."
- illustrator/caricaturist but refers to himself as a storyteller
- illustration is collaboration, not an entirely separate field
- illustrates children's books, magazines, and newspapers
- "I’m restless. I’m very distractable, and I constantly need new stimuli. I ravenously trawl for old books and unfamiliar visual imagery in the online and analog worlds. I’ve also never felt particularly virtuosic in any one medium, technique, or style. I didn’t go to art school; I’m pretty much self-taught. So I try a lot of new things."
- what's the difference between illustration and design when you fit into both?
- don't wait until later to do personal work
