In HOW’s March 2013 issue, we profile San Francisco-based design firm Office. Here, the Office team shares their 7-point manifesto for success.
- We believe that mediocrity is our nemesis.
- We believe that design should make you feel something.
- We believe in clarity.
- We believe that gut instincts are usually right.
- We believe in bringing together extraordinary creative minds. And then going bowling.
- We believe any color can be the new black … except for purple.
- We believe Buckminster Fuller when he said, “A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.” (And we wish we had said it first.)
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