Top 284 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Graphic Designers - Page 5
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Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.
The truth about logos is that they are not that hard to do.
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.
We are so obsessed with the Net and technology that we forget the message... We imagine to be able to do anything, and our software helps us believe we can... But we must move beyond the 'how' to reconsider the 'what' and the 'why'.
Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.
Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.
You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.
The simpler the assignment, the more difficult the solution.
Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.
Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.
We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.
It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.
Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate.
Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
Inherent quality is part of absolute quality and without it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.
Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?
The materials shape your idea.
Information is only useful when it can be understood
You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.
Grid systems in graphic design
Living with computers gives funny ideas.
Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.
The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.
Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.
I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
I'm not sure about my design work every time.