Bob Gill Quotes

• Be stimulated by rejection

  Bob Gill

  Determination, Rejection, Design

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• Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

  Bob Gill

  Interesting, Problem, Unlikely

  Bob Gill (2003). “Graphic Design As a Second Language”, p.38, Images Publishing

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• When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Truthful

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• I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

  Bob Gill

  Jobs, Design, Dumb

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• Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Statements

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• How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

  Bob Gill

  Culture, Use, Fonts

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• No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.
  Sometimes it's even better.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Arbitrary, Matter

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• Forget all the rules you ever learned
  about graphic design.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Graphic Design, Forget

  Bob Gill (2004). “Illustration”, p.2, Images Publishing

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• The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

  Bob Gill

  Thinking, Way, Visuals

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• If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

  Bob Gill

  Art, Calling, Designer

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• Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

  Bob Gill

  New Experiences, Ideas, Design

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• I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.

  Bob Gill

  Jobs, House, Harder

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• There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

  Bob Gill

  Culture

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• It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

  Bob Gill

  Energy, Efficiency, Vicious

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• We need practice solving problems.

  Bob Gill

  Practice, Needs, Problem

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• It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

  Bob Gill

  House, Harder, Persons

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