Inspirational Graphic Design Quotes

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

Robert L. Peters

Inspiring, Art, Design

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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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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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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Death, Art, Simple

"Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Thomas Manss

Memorable, Design, Needs

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

Fashion, Successful, Unique

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Design is where science and art break even.

Robin Mathews

Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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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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The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

Massimo Vignelli

Creativity, Fighting, Design

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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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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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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Wim Crouwel

Work, Technology, Design

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

Henrik Fisker

Art, Design, Branding

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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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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell

Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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

Pierre Bonnard

Death, Color, Design

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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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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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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Life, Success

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