Graphic Design Quotes - Page 8

• I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

  Colleen Haskell

  Children, Book, Design

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• Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Eye, Design, Stories

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• Forget all the rules you ever learned
  about graphic design.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Forget, Graphic

  Bob Gill (2004). “Illustration”, p.2, Images Publishing

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• When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Perfect, Design

  "Master of 'Biz' Returns to School" by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Hats

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• The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

  Paul Rand

  Technology, Design, Reassuring

  Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• I went to work at political consulting firms, graphic design and communications firms and ultimately, magazines. Today, my career is in the media business. And more specifically, I'm in the "words" side of the business as opposed to video or music.

  Lewis Schiff

  Communication, Media, Careers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

  Ryan McGinley

  Photography, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

  Jessica Walsh

  Inspiration, Work You Love, Design

  "Sagmeister & Walsh interview and recent work". Designboom interview, www.designboom.com.

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• Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

  John Maeda

  Teaching, Design, Needs

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• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

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• Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Design, Brilliance, Graphic

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• Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.

  Marian Bantjes

  Teacher, Real, Ideas

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• People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, People, Interesting

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• I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Design, Way, Strange

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• In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of the record cover sleeve. His name is Alex Steinweiss. And one of the things in my book that we really tried to figure out was the revolution in graphic design that occurred when people put images on album covers.

  DJ Spooky

  Book, Names, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Humor is all about timing.

  Steven Heller

  Design, Timing, Graphic

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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Graphic

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• To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

  Paul Klee

  Thinking, Numbers, Giving

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• Inner beauty is for amateurs.

  Anne Taintor

  Design, Inner Beauty, Graphic

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• A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Strong, Art, Selfish

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Always Astonished: Selected Prose”, p.53, City Lights Books

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• There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Men, Design, Important

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• The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

  Susan Stewart

  Book, Design, Infinity

  Susan Stewart (1984). “On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection”, p.38, Duke University Press

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• I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.

  Brian Froud

  Design, Honest, Advertising

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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