Design Quotes - Page 22

• Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

  Rick Lenz

  Lying, Best Business

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• Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.529, Wildside Press LLC

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• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Sap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

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• What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Giving, Information

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• Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

  GZA

  Visuals, Habitual

  "Song: Reunited (Wu-Tang Forever)". March 30, 1998.

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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

  Arbitrary, Matter, Clients

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• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Thinking, Important

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• It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Fax, Opera

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• When in doubt, use Caslon.

  William Caslon

  Doubt, Use, When In Doubt

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• Good design is not an applied veneer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Veneer, Good Design

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• Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

  Simon Campbell

  Knitting, Suffering, Fool

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• It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

  Louis Silverstein

  Editors, Doe, Paper

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• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Life, Loss, Science

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.

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• As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Intelligent, History

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• There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

  Edward Tufte

  Confusing, Information, Overload

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• Work your ass off. Don't be an asshole.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Ass

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• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  Ellen Lupton

  Art, Interesting Situations, Needs

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

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• My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.

  Isaac Newton

  Book, Science, Light

  Opticks Book One, Part I

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• Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Imagination, Worry, Misuse

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1948). “Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination”

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• It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Opportunity, Equality

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• Style is to forget all styles.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Style, Forget

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.45, Tin House Books

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• Beware of advice-even this.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Advice

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• I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

  Michael Schwab

  Artist, Drawing, Etch A Sketch

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• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

  Randall Munroe

  Sex, Tangled, Hot

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