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• Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Ideas, Design, Normalcy

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• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Freeman Thomas

  Honesty, Creative Collaboration, Tough Questions

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• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  Orson Welles

  Fashion, Successful, Unique

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• [Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

  Jacques Bertin

  Simple, Design, Understanding

  Jacques Bertin (1981). “Graphics and Graphic Information Processing”, p.1, Walter de Gruyter

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• Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

  Wynn Bullock

  Creativity, Design, Joy

  Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

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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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• When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

  Tibor Kalman

  Hate, Design, One Love

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

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Communication, Design, Information

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• Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

  Issey Miyake

  Death, Philosophy, Design

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• Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

  Jon Franklin

  Inspiring, Simplicity, Design

  Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

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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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• There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Design, Designer

  Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing

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• Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content must be brought to the surface. And when a design is completed, it should seem natural and obvious. It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last.

  Roger Black

  Design, Looks, Links

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• Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

  Peter Bilak

  Communication, Design, Graphic

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Design, Would Be

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• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  Erik Adigard

  Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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• It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

  Paula Scher

  Mistake, Technology, Order

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• But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

  Marian Bantjes

  Successful, Design, Deals

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• Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.

  Chip Kidd

  Falling In Love, Ideas, Design

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Art, Writing, Engineering

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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