Graphic Designer Quotes

• You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  Wim Crouwel

  Work, Technology, Design

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• A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

  Bruno Munari

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• 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

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Design, Easy, Difficult

  Samuel Johnson (1803). “The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]”, p.71

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Design

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• The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

  Marty Neumeier

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

  Victor Papanek

  Meaningful, Order, Design

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• 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

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Technology, Design, Absence

  "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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

  Massimo Vignelli

  Creativity, Fighting, Design

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• The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

  Zuzana Licko

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Art, Design

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Design, Synthesis

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

  Eric Gill

  Design, Different, Letters

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.43, Laurus

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• Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

  Jan Tschichold

  Art, Perfect, Design

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• If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Made

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• A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

  Leo Frankowski

  Beautiful, Simple, Talking

  Leo Frankowski (2004). “Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior”, p.155, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

  Robert L. Peters

  Inspiring, Art, Design

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• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  Ellen Lupton

  Technology, Design, Spacing

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

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• 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

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