Inspirational Design Quotes - Page 2

• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Doctors

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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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• You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Art, Design, Pieces

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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

  Robert L. Peters

  Inspiring, Art, Design

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

  Neville Brody

  Technology, Design, Digital

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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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• 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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• 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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• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Color, Design

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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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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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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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• 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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