Layout Quotes

• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Perfection, Institutions, Collapse

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

  John Maeda

  Design, Pages, Looks

  "STEM to STEAM: An Interview With RISD’s President, John Maeda". Interview with Darby Roach, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 06, 2017.

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• To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Laughing, Car, Links

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

  Bob Gill

  Culture, Use, Fonts

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• Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

  Steve McConnell

  Code Quality, Logical, Program

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• We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both of those experiences are really important to communicating information, especially when that information involves complex ideas.

  Michael Bierut

  Ideas, Two, Design

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

  James W. Loewen

  Thinking, Done, Textbooks

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Simple, Men, Feelings

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Surfing, Way

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• A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

  Grace Kelly

  Magazines, Life Is, Persons

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Shoes

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• Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own.

  Laura Ramirez

  Love, Lines, Gothic

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• The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

  Ashley Wagner

  Opportunity, Jumping, Competition

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• Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.

  Garth Ennis

  Character, Design, Guy

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• I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.

  Augusto De Luca

  Skeletons, Order, Perspective

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• The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Cutting, Zines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

  David Ogilvy

  Feet, Boards, Magazines

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• The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

  John Kricfalusi

  Jealous, Writing, Department

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• One of the things that I think nobody's done yet is really taking advantage of the electric powertrain layout, which of course, means you don't have a gasoline engine in the front and you don't have a gas tank in the rear.

  Henrik Fisker

  Mean, Thinking, Tanks

  "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.

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• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Illinois, Cities

  "Vince Vaughn in Love". Interview with Gary Dretzka, www.chicagomag.com. June, 2006.

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• My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Gone, Agents

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.

  Tom of Finland

  Cutting, Important, Usual

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