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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  Haley Reinhart

  Vitamin D, Sun, Vitamins

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• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  Zach Johnson

  Growing Up, Numbers, Water

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• A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and is based on. A fundamental determines the shape of what arises from it, much as a foundation of a house dictates its layout. A basic is how you introduce people you are teaching to the system. It is a beginning concept, often simplified to assist learning. If a fundamental is the foundation, a basic is the front door to enter the system.

  Marc MacYoung

  Teaching, Ideas, Doors

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• The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

  James J. Gibson

  Heart, Space, Depth

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• The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.

  Walt Disney

  Men, Design, Would Be

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• With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

  Chester Brown

  Thinking, Stories, Projects

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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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• ComicsAlliance asked if I wanted to do some holiday comics using a new layout and I said ‘HELLO, NEVER IN MY NEAR-DECADE OF MAKING COMICS HAVE I EVER DONE THIS, so actually I’m really glad you asked!’

  Ryan North

  Holiday, Done, Hello

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• Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspiration, Animal, Texture

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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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• As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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