Debbie Millman

“Everything in our world is branded.”

“I don't regret the decisions that I've made. I really truly understand why I made them.”

“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.”

“Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.”

“We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.”

“No one likes someone who's really overconfident.”

“Branding is deliberate differentiation.”

“I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.”

“LaCroix is deftly devoted to its zealots, and this is a classic case study of how lavishly loving your constituents is the best way to get them to buy more.”

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

“People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.”

“No matter how bleak the situation into which we have been thrown by the global economy, it does offer opportunities. Designers need only invent them.”

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

“In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.”

“I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.”

“Millennials don't want to be bombarded by ads. But what is so interesting to me, though, is how willingly they accept native content. Or native advertising - it's not even native content.”

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

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

“'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better.”

“The thing that I like about magazines, paper magazines, and papers in any kind of tangible format is the surprise factor of turning the page and not necessarily knowing what you're going to see. You're not looking for something. You're just experiencing something.”