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

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”

“I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.”

“In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of the record cover sleeve. His name is Alex Steinweiss. And one of the things in my book that we really tried to figure out was the revolution in graphic design that occurred when people put images on album covers.”

“I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do it all in your apartment. So I would shoot, make contact sheets, scan all the cool negatives, and make all these zines and books of my photos to give to my friends. I was really into zine- and bookmaking from skate culture.”

“It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.”

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

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

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

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

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

“Design is where science and art break even.”