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      • Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

        —G. K. Chesterton
      • A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

        —Sir Alec Issigonis
      • Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

        —Charles Eames
      • A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

        —Douglas Adams
      • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.

        —Scott Adams
      • May your work be in keeping with your purpose and design.

        —Leonardo da Vinci
      • If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man falling out of a window during the time it takes him to get from the fifth story to the ground, then you will never be able to produce monumental work.

        —Eugène Delacroix
      • To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

        —Milton Glaser
      • We make things for somebody. The idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.

        —Pablo Picasso
      • Great design can and does change the world. Poor design can and does ruin lives.

        —Scott McCloud
      • The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

        —Tibor Kalman
      • All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

        —Charles James
      • Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

        —Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman

Clearing House

The question I have gotten most often over the last few years from fans of the Urban Tarot is “Where can I get my hands on a copy of the original ‘indie’ edition?” I’ve heard from lots of people who have been trying to track down a copy of the deck with my original 9/11-based “Towers” card instead of the new Tower I created for the revised mass-market edition. Other people just really wanted to get a copy of the deck that wasn’t so physically large, so they could more comfortably hold the deck in their hands and shuffle. For the most part, my response has had to be “I’m sorry, they’re not available anymore.”

I only had 1000 copies of that original deck made, which was itself a pretty massive expense for me, as I was publishing it entirely on my own. About half of them were shipped out immediately to backers of the Kickstarter. The rest I sold either personally or through a couple of small retailers. And then they were all gone. Except. I hung onto a few last copies, as gifts. I did give several of those copies away to friends and family over the years, but not quite all of them.

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