Inspirational Design Quotes - Page 2

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Neville Brody

Technology, Design, Digital

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

Henrik Fisker

Art, Design, Branding

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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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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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Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

David Carson

Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design

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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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Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Robert L. Peters

Inspiring, Art, Design

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Design is where science and art break even.

Robin Mathews

Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Technology, Design, Absence

"Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Bob Gill

Jobs, Design, Dumb

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

Massimo Vignelli

Discipline, Design, Graphic Design

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

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Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Chip Kidd

Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Love, Inspirational, Life

Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Pierre Bonnard

Death, Color, Design

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Inspirational, Business, Mean

1967 Search for the Real.

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Red Adair

Jobs, Thinking, Design

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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

Inspiring, Business, Work

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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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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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood

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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Art, Simple, Design

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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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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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