Michael Bierut Quotes

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• Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

  Michael Bierut

  Creativity, Simplicity, Design

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• Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Favors, Ready

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books

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• The problem contains the solution.

  Michael Bierut

  Motivational, Problem, Solutions

  "Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks". Michael Bierut's presentation at the 99% Conference in New York, 99u.adobe.com. 2009.

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• 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.

  Michael Bierut

  Ideas, Doe, Firsts

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Fiction, Facts

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.168, Chronicle Books

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• BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

  Michael Bierut

  Thoughtful, Choices, Choices You Make

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• If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

  Michael Bierut

  Attention, Calling, Consciousness

  "Interview with Michael Bierut — Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges". Interview with Kent Anderson, scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org. April 16, 2013.

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• Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.

  Michael Bierut

  Mature, Designer, Discovering

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• Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

  Michael Bierut

  Business, Magic, Intuition

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• No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.

  Michael Bierut

  Authenticity, Designer, One Love

  Michael Bierut (2007). “79 Short Essays on Design”, p.167, Princeton Architectural Press

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• If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Clients, Good Work

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• The truth about logos is that they are not that hard to do.

  Michael Bierut

  Logos, Hard

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Environment, Conscious

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• It's a cliché, but typefaces are really just ingredients.

  Michael Bierut

  Ingredients, Typefaces

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into a great program. Alternatively you could design what seems to be a brilliant logo for people who are not smart or energetic or are incapable of associating with anything positive and it would become a terrible logo.

  Michael Bierut

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Every little job counts. Design counts.

  Michael Bierut

  Jobs, Design, Littles

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• If you can announce the Higgs Boson in Comic Sans, clearly anybody can do anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Comic, Comic Sans, Can Do

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo.

  Michael Bierut

  Nike, Art, Guy

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I'm not sure about my design work every time.

  Michael Bierut

  Design Work, Design, Not Sure

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Target for example, is just a dot with a circle around it, that's all it is, so if you want a logo like Target, you don't need to hire a designer, you barely need to know how to operate a computer program, the logo may as well be anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Circles, Example, Needs

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.

  Michael Bierut

  Ingredients, Want, Dishes

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from 1991 and look at all the names and appointments and things that, at the time, seemed so important. Meetings that I was really worried about, things that I was getting calls four times a day about, and I wonder, "Where did it all go? Where are they now?" It's so strange, everything has disappeared. The only thing that stays behind is the work.

  Michael Bierut

  Names, Important, Looks

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• Everyone can have an opinion on a logo.

  Michael Bierut

  Logos, Opinion

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Enthusiasm, Type

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• 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?

  Michael Bierut

  Mean, Thinking, Class

  Source: facingsideways.com

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