Graphic Design Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Tim Girvin

  Dream, Imagination, Design

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• If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

  Paul Rand

  Design, Caves, Logic

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• Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

  Paul Rand

  Design, Intuition, Gestalt

  "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

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

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Kids, Differences

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• The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

  Rajneesh

  Design, Excuse, Graphic

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• You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

  Lorraine Wild

  Design, Culture, Great Design

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• I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

  Vaughan Oliver

  Art, Design, Graphic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Hats

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• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

  James Turrell

  Fire, Design, Atmosphere

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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

  Bob Gill

  Design, Forget, Graphic

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

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• 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

  Technology, Design, Reassuring

  Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Eye, Design, Stories

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• When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Perfect, Design

  "Master of 'Biz' Returns to School" by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.

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• 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.

  Colleen Haskell

  Children, Book, Design

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• The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.

  Italo Calvino

  Beautiful, Thinking, Order

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Math, Simple

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• Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Design, Leader, Graphic

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• We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, White, Imagination

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• It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

  Giorgetto Giugiaro

  Design, Architect, Artisans

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• Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Design, Possibility

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• When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

  Alan Kay

  Hate, Law, People

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• We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

  Mike Ness

  Tomorrow May Never Come, Sky, Long

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• Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Perspective

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