AIGA Design Conference

AIGA Design Conference, October, 2008
New York City

Invest in your education. Always keep learning. Subscribe to publications from your industry. Attend presentations and conferences that interest you. Read industry blogs and websites. Listen to podcasts and webinars to expand your thinking. Join organizations to meet people with your same profession and interests. Read a book a month. Do anything to learn something new. 

This is what I learned at the AIGA Design Conference with speakers from Target, Martha Stewart, Pinkberry, Saturn, Google, and Rolling Stone:

"Great art and design is not an accident. It is put together beautifully."

"Design is HOPE made visible. Designers bring creation and cause, efficiency and brilliance to a message."

"We will always learn more about human life and possibility from design and art than from science and psychology." ~ Noam Chomsky

"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." ~Marcel Proust

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results. And reasons simply don't count." ~Robert Anthony

"He who has a 'why' to live for, can bear almost any 'how'." ~Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher)

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." ~Pablo Picasso

What will you do to always keep learning?