“There is so much we don’t understand. However, as scientists continue to dissect our human brains, they aim to explain it all: why we love, why we hate, why we believe in something greater than ourselves. At the same time, technology distances us from ourselves. Designers, on the other hand, are charged with feeling our collective emotional pulse, chronicling our relationship to our world in our time—telling our stories. Like a flower growing through a crack in concrete, our humanity will persist. Knock on wood.”

—DK Holland, Communication Arts, November 2007