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，我希望第二次会有所不同。Europe and the U.S. didn&#39t really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was.欧

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&#39s really reserved for working.之后的四十年用于工作。And then tacked on at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement.放到最后的是约十五年的退休生活。And I thoug

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 during the regular working year.一些通常不容易在正常的工作年度里达成的事。In that year, we are not available for any of our client

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 hand I have nothing against selling. My parents are both salespeople.一方面我不反对销售，我父母都是销售员。But I did feel t

We are also working on the start of a bigger project in Bali. It&#39s 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&#39t quite slick enough.在这里，我们请了附近的一些猪为我们做标题。却嫌它们不够仔细。So we asked the goose to do it again, and hoped she

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 identity that doesn&#39t use the architecture, I failed at that.尽管我想要把这个标志设计得与建筑物造型没关，结果却没有成功。And most

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 wonderful and enticing for idea generation.空闲本身就很好，使人创新。It was not. I just, without a plan, I just reacted t

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&#39s 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 Brothers, who all performed there, get their own Casa da Musica logo.或Philip Grass，或Lou Reed，或Chemic

Then there is a coffee table. I also did a coffee table. It&#39s 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 inside, and make those compasses go crazy, always centering on them.我们还特制了特浓咖啡的小杯子，里面藏着磁铁，它使这些指南针拼命地

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，&quotShould I really take as much money as I can? Or should I leave the piece intact as it is right now?&quot我是要把这些钱尽量拿走，还是保持图像完好无缺？While we built all this up during that we

If I look at my cycle, seven years, one year sabbatical, it&#39s 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，3M since the 1930s is giving all their engineers 15 percent to pursue whatever they want.3M公司自20世纪30年

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