I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. 我不信教，但我尊重自然。 I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. 我的第一个长修假是在纽约市度过的，我希望第二次
Also is the knowledge that right now we spend about in the first 25 years of our lives learning, 我还有另一个原因，目前我们大概用生命的前二十五年学习， then there is another 40 years that's really reserved for working. 之后的四十年用于
I run a design studio in New York. 我在纽约开一家设计工作室。 Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, 每七年我都关闭一年，让我进行一些小实验， things that are always difficult to accomplish durin
Second insight. So far, until that point I had been mostly involved or used the language of design for promotional purposes, which was fine with me. 第二种体会：在那次长假之前，多数时候，我都使用设计语言帮助促销，那并没有什么不好。 On one ha
We are also working on the start of a bigger project in Bali. It's a movie about happiness. 我们还在巴厘岛开始了一个更大的项目，是一个讲关于快乐的电影。 And here we asked some nearby pigs to do the titles for us. They weren't quit
We were asked to design an identity for Casa da Musica, the Rem Koolhaas-built music center in Porto, in Portugal. 音乐之家曾请我们设计标志，就是那个由Rem Koolhaas设计建造的音乐中心，在葡萄牙的波尔图。 And even though I desired to do an
In the beginning, on the first sabbatical, it was rather disastrous. 我的第一个休假初期，事情进展一点也不顺利。 I had thought that I should do this without any plan, 我以为不用计划， that this vacuum of time somehow would be wond
So it will always fit together, conceptually, of course. 所以在概念的层面而言，它们一定能互相配合。 If Zappa's music is performed, it gets its own logo. 如果演出Zappa的音乐，它会有自己独特的标志。 Or Philip Glass or Lou Reed or the Chemical
Then there is a coffee table. I also did a coffee table. It's called Be Here Now. It includes 330 compasses. 我还设计了这张茶几，起名叫“现在到此”。它里面装了330个指南针。 And we had custom espresso cups made that hide a magnet i
And the idea of course was to make the type so precious that as an audience you would be in between 我们的构思，是把图样做得很精美，要令观赏者觉得难以决定， "Should I really take as much money as I can? Or should I leave the pie
If I look at my cycle, seven years, one year sabbatical, it's 12.5 percent of my time. 看看我的周期，干七年，休一年，是我百分之12.5的时间。 And if I look at companies that are actually more successful than mine, 看看比我更成功的公司，
