Graphic Design Quotes

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  • Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

    "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.
  • I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

    Design  
    "Gabriel Basso Makes It Look Easy". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2011.
  • The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

    Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press
  • Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  • For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

  • You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

    Art   Design  
  • Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

  • I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

    Design  
  • Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

    David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press
  • In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

    Art   Order  
  • I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

    Design  
  • Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  • As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  • The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

    "Poems". Book by C. F. Main, p. 3, 1973.
  • The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.

  • Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

  • For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

    Ideas   Design  
  • Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

  • I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

    People  
  • If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.

    Art  
  • You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  • The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

    Simple  
  • The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

    Art   People  
  • Luck is the residue of design.

  • Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

    Source: justcreative.com
  • Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

  • Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

    Design  
  • It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

  • Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.

    Real   Ideas  
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