{"id":447,"date":"2008-10-15T23:08:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=447"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:35:19","slug":"clement_quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/clement_quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cl\u00e9ment Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Everything we see is an iceberg.”
\nCl\u00e9ment Vincent<\/a>, Assistant Professor in Communication Design at the Emily Carr University. Myself and a handful of senior students attend his weekly Design Futures class. We give presentations and discuss readings on the design process, how we define design, and the paths we take around \/ through \/ beyond it. Below, some quotes and paraphrases (in his French accent) from the past month:
\nMaterials are one of the primary forces driving innovation.
\nArt is accessible but you must engage art on an intellectual level.
\nBe a true amateur.*
\nIt [a recent student art sale campaign slogan] should not be ‘Buy More Art’ but rather Love More Art. You’ll get so much more back then you give.
\nFind an example where you fought repugnance–where you gave the benefit of the doubt–and weren’t rewarded.
\nWe need standards to protect ourselves.
\nEverything we see is an iceberg.
\nI wish you to be in collaborative situations. Without collaboration nothing would get done. This is the height of wellbeing. Very satisfying.
\nDesign need not always solve problems.
\nIf people didn’t need you, you would not exist [as a designer].
\nDesigners have very little power. It is controlled by the market. We are in between the people who invent new things and the people who sell them. We help things fit in their time. We are embedded with industry. We help people to get more power.
\nBrazilians digested modernism; North Americans parodied it.
\nYou have a serious problem when you believe what you think and write.
\nInspiration is following a thing. It is duration, progression, investigation. Learning more.
\nIf you have a large amount of knowledge and you don’t use it you are in a cell, a cage.
\nI don’t think there’s a difference between a painter and a designer.
\n*Ed. note: the Latin root of the word ‘amateur’ is amare<\/em>: to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Everything we see is an iceberg.” Cl\u00e9ment Vincent, Assistant Professor in Communication Design at the Emily Carr University. Myself and a handful of senior students attend his weekly Design Futures class. We give presentations and discuss readings on the design process, how we define design, and the paths we take around \/ through \/ beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}