Robert Bringhurst Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Opportunity, Endless Opportunities, Design

• In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Horse, Jobs, Book

• Typography exists to honor content.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Design, Honor, Typography

• Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Design, Durability, Language

• To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech: it is an ordinary physical activity pushed to a conscious edge. That interference with the given world can still be founded on admiration. Where it is not, what is the point of designing at all?

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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