The coach has put a lot of trust in me to make good decisions in the post.
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
Be stimulated by rejection
Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.