I've had one particular post, that I haven't yet written but has been floating around in my brain for the best part of a year, that involves Phillipe Starck and humility. And I wanted to quote Kenneth Grange - who, in case you don't know, was one of the founding partners of Pentagram. One of his many achievements was the design of this:
Though I think he had the help of a few other people on that one.
Anyway, I have a distinct recollection that I'd read somewhere a long time ago that Grange was once at a party and somebody asked him what sort of designer he was. To which he replied "a humble designer". It was probably in Design magazine, or maybe The Designer - sometime in the 1980s. And I thought I'd be able to find it on the internet ('cos the internet's good for that sort of thing, isn't it?).
But I've discovered that if you type 'Kenneth Grange humble designer' into Google, then one of the results you get is me talking about having read somewhere that Grange was once at a party...
A lesson, I think, that just because you imagine something happened doesn't mean it did.
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