Khoi Vinh Quotes

#1. Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.

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#2. Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

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#3. Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.

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#4. I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

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#5. I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.

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#6. I think there's a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.

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#7. I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

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#8. You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.

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#9. I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

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#10. I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.

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#11. You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

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#12. I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to a lot of people. So, I think there's a lot of value that print designers have.

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#13. I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

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#14. You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible as we'd like it to be. Just by nature of web technology.

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#15. I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

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#16. The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

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#17. I think there's a huge - there's a huge desire in me to make sense of the world in a way that I think you can trace back to that early disruption, this idea of wanting to compensate for that really kind of traumatic experience and sort of seeing its impact on my immediate and extended family.

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#18. I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

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