Innovation does not always, or even necessarily, imply dramatic change. Design is innovative even if it is merely interpret in an unexpected way. Innovative solutions are more the product of restraints than of freedoms—of cultural limitations, scarcity of funds and materials, production capabilities, and demand of the marketplace.

Innovation is the enemy of trendiness, pretense, and timidity. It recognizes the genuine from the spurious. It tantalizes the viewer, stimulates the mind, intensifies meaning, generates interest, and is at the heart of both design and better business.

— Design, Form, Chaos.

Interview by Chuck Smith, 1997. Taos, New Mexico.

Agnes Martin Writings

A Tom Ford interviewed by The Style Forum. 
(41:32 min) 

Book to be relased this month.

From Steve McCurrry's One-minute Masterclass at Phaidon. 

The motivations of designers are an important consideration in the development of good objects. Jasper Morrison believes that good objects don’t always result from wanting to be noticed. He reminds designers of their responsibility to fill environments with interesting, useful and normal things.
From Design Indaba, 2007.

http://www.designindaba.com/speaker/presentation/jasper-morrison-2007

The electric collaboration of a Photographer – Mark Seliger, a Typographer – Gail Anderson, and an Art Director – Fred Woodward.