Massimo Vignelli Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• If you do it right, it will last forever.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Forever, Lasts

• There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Design, Graphic Design

  Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing

• Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Forever, Good Design

• If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Graphic Design, Designer

  Massimo Vignelli, Lella Vignelli, Images Publishing (2004). “Design is One”, p.4, Images Publishing

• The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Creativity, Fighting, Design

• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Doctors

• Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Imagination, Design

• Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Style, Language

• Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Exercise, Discipline, Design

• Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Art, Design, Utilitarian

• I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Organization, Design, Information

• You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Issues, Design, Quality

• So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesn’t have to be one style. We’re not talking about style, we’re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Talking, Giving, Design

• In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Truth Is, Logical

• ...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

  Massimo Vignelli

  Doctors, People, Design

• I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Kids, Cutting, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.

  Massimo Vignelli

  School, Years, Cities

  Source: bigthink.com

• Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Sides, Sells

  Source: bigthink.com

• Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Communication, Design, Information

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