The book About Design: Insights and Provocations for Graphic Design Enthusiasts by Gordon Salchow can help with both. If you’ve spent any time in a graphic design program in the United States over the last few decades, there’s a good chance his ideas about teaching design influenced the way you were taught. The keynote is presented word for word and is filled with insights about graphic design and graphic design education along with the usual humorous stories keynotes like these tend to offer. Ultimately About Design: Insights and Provocations for Graphic Design Enthusiasts offers an opinion, a philosophy, and a point of view about graphic design from someone who taught design for 55 years and who helped establish one of the better graphic design programs in the country and helped influence many others. About Design: Insights and Provocations for Graphic Design Enthusiasts costs $19.99 and you can buy it directly from the publisher or from from Amazon.