Eight years in newspapers honed my deadline muscles and muses. But I wanted relief, so I turned to academia for—among other things—it's openness. But deadlines are part of design always and this month was an extraordinary one.
So just a note of gratitude to Pierre Bergé for not only acknowledging the power of a deadline, but for making me feel better when I needed it. Four major publications have returned from the press in the past week alone. I feel the weight of the world off my shoulders.
Maybe that's the magic. Design generates constant relief. Constant labor. Constant ticking. Constant joy.
