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GD
USA: Do you
have a design hero?
CCHS: Once, for my birthday,
my parents rented a reel-to-reel projector and Charles and Ray Eames’
Powers of Ten. It’s a brilliant film, and one that is cited by
many designers as being tremendously influential. Keep in mind, though,
that I was seven, and while I recall being fascinated by the film, the
concept of exponential relativity was only loosely within my grasp.
Nevertheless the heroes were revealed: my parents, who could have hired
a clown instead.
GD USA: How and where do you find inspiration?
CCHS: Inspiration generally
finds me. I have a tendency to notice everything — then analyze
and discuss it. Entertainment, entomology, etiquette, politics, an interesting
quote, baseball defensive strategy, Kevin Spacey's ability to act with
his eyes, the number of people I observe wearing red pants the day after
thanksgiving, whether profound or mundane, one can extract a metaphor
from almost any examined situation. In a world so replete with meaning,
how could anyone fail to be inspired?
GD USA: Do
you believe the economic recovery is finally here?
CCHS: I saw this sign
on the freeway one night. In brightly illuminated letters it read, “TRAFFIC
CLEAR AHEAD.” Predictably, everyone slowed down to read the sign
and the traffic ahead was soon reduced to a crawl. I think if we spent
less time worrying about when our lives are going to become easy again
and focused on the task at hand, we might just get there a little quicker.
GD USA: Do
you feel hopeful about 2004?
CCHS:
For
no real reason I looked up the word “hope” several months
ago and was confronted by its definition: to hope is to wish with an
expectation of fulfillment. To wish, by the way, is simply to desire.
Until then I had never thought to make a distinction between the two,
perhaps because I never saw the point of desiring something without
being intent on its pursuit, nor pursuing something without believing
it to be attainable. In essence, then, I am hopeful about everything.
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