Designers are lucky

79 Short essays on design, Michael Bierut, 2007

Designers are lucky. As the people who structure much of the world’s communications, we get to vicariously partake of as many fields of interest as we have clients. In a single day, a designer can talk about real estate with one client, cancer cures with another, and forklift trucks with a third. Imagine how tedius it must be for a dentist who has nothing to do all day but worry about teeth.