12. The Power of Silence

Image

One of my all-time movie heroes is Steve McQueen. I think the first thing I ever saw him in was The Great Escape. To me McQueen exuded exactly what it meant to be a Hollywood movie star. Yes, he could act, but he also had a terse magnetism that many more animated actors lacked. I still look to him to inspire my work as a designer.

Image

Photo by Getty Images

Steve McQueen was an incredibly subtle actor. Just watch the scene where he first appears with Yul Brynner in the classic western The Magnificent Seven, and you’ll see what ...

Get Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.