Quotes from Debbie Millman

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique.

A brand is simply a set of beliefs. And if you don't create a set of beliefs around your products or services, well, you stand for nothing - you have no values and no vision.

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.

I find working on brands some of the most interesting work you can do.

Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo Box to art, artists and designers have been blurring the lines between fine art and commerce.

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Even though brands are created by people, they belong to the corporations.

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

if you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be.

If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don't compromise, and don't waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.

If you can make a compelling argument, and win enough minds, and if you can transform various parts of our world sufficiently, then the moment belongs to you.

I think market research is extremely valuable when it is used properly. But you must not use it to tell you what to do.

The commercial, anthropological, and sociological branding process that professionals engage in now creates visceral distinctions to evoke immediate responses in people.

Here's what the moment of inspiration did. It assembled these cultural meanings in this particular package for this particular group at this particular cultural moment.

Hard decisions are only hard when you're making them.

You never know when a typical life will be anything but, and you won't know if you are rewriting history, or rewriting the future, until the writing is complete.

One piece of advice I think they should ignore is the value of being a "people person." No one cares if you are a people person. Have a point of view, and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, and with conviction.

He designed the iconic Bob Dylan poster and the I Love New York icon. Milton Glaser

He has suggested that we eliminate the word art and replace it with work.

The great distinction between purgatory and inferno, or hell, is that the people in purgatory know what they have done and the people in hell do not.