“Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.”
– Wally Wood, Editor, Marvel Comics
Wally Wood’s Design Motto
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Neil Gaiman Tells You All You Need To Know About Doctor Who
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“No, look, there’s a blue box. It’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it’s meant to go. And when it turns up, there’s a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he’s awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch ‘Blink’.”
– Neil Gaiman: What I would say to someone worried about having to know 47 years of backstory before watching Doctor Who. (via Wil Wheaton)
On Code Maintenance
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
– Brad Bowman
Roger Black’s Advice for Young Designers
“On the skillset side, what you’ve got to do as a young person entering the field, is really equip yourself with some basic development skills. You have to be able to understand HTML and CSS. You have to know what JavaScript can do and what it can’t do. You don’t necessarily have to write cool JavaScript transitions, or even in CSS, but you’ve got to know what you can do in each. And you’ve got to be able to design so that if you have a more adept coder working with you, they know you know what you’re talking about.”
– Roger Black
Creative People Romanticize Mistakes
“Creative people romanticize mistakes and process. But there is no process if you don’t start. No one crumples a blank sheet of paper.”
– Frank Chimero, How to Have an Idea