Graphic Design Quotes - Page 6

• I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like a splinter in your mind and you cant get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called The Hunger Games.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Moving, School, Years

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

  Paola Antonelli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

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• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Design

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• Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Art, Science, Engineering

  "Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Study of Interface Aesthetics". Book by Michael P. Bauerly, 2007.

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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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• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

  Ellen Lupton

  Voice, Space, Diversity

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

  Chip Kidd

  Race, Ideas, America

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

  Chip Kidd

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Immortality, Mathematics, Mark

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Mean, Orchestra

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• What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

  Tibor Kalman

  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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• 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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• 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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• Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

  John Maeda

  Design, Students, Graduates

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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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• Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

  John Maeda

  Communication, Design, Leader

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• Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).

  Etienne Wenger

  Passion, Practice, People

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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake, Simple, Differences

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• You cannot not communicate.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Design, Communicate, Graphic

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• It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.

  Lev Manovich

  Names, Design, Special

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• In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• I h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d and I do not want what I haven`t got. I have learned this from my mother ; see how happy she has made me. I will take this road much further though I know not where it takes me.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Mother, Design, Want

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• If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

  Jef Raskin

  Creativity, Design, Fields

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