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“There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.”

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Book:Vignelli

Source: Vignelli

“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.”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.”

World Doe Awareness Save The World Graphic Design

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.”

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Author:Paula Rego

“If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?”

Ifs World Criticism Praise Graphic Design

Book:It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks

Source: It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks

“The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.”

“I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like a splinter in your mind and you cant get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called The Hunger Games.”

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Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.”

“Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.”

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Author:Jeffrey Veen

“Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.”

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Author:Alexander Isley

“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.”

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Book:Typographie

Source: Typographie

“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.”

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Book:Thinking with Type

Source: Thinking with Type

“Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.”

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Author:Robert L. Peters

“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.”

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Author:Edward Tufte

“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.”

“Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.”

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Author:David Carson

“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.”

Problem Jobs Accepting Design Dumb Clients Good Work Graphic Design Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design

Author:Bob Gill

“It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”

Order Grows Mistake Technology Design Designer Graphic Design Good Design Web Design Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design Design Inspiration Inspiring Design

Author:Paula Scher

“If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.”

Ifs Design Clients Good Work Graphic Design Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design

Author:Michael Bierut

“But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.”

My Own Deals Successful Design Exception Graphic Design Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design

Author:Marian Bantjes

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

Technology Design Painting Paint Designer Digital Graphic Design Web Design Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design Design Inspiration Inspiring Design

Author:Neville Brody

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.”

Ifs Want Care Beautiful Design Ugly Beautiful Things Bass Graphic Design Nobody Cares Ugly Things Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design

Author:Saul Bass

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

“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

“I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.”

Information Design Organization Consistent Graphic Graphic Design

Author:Massimo Vignelli

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Author:Zuzana Licko

“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”

Design Letters Metaphor Dinner Jeans Jackets Graphic Design Typefaces Helvetica

Author:Adrian Frutiger

“Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.”

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Author:Paola Antonelli

“Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.”

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Author:John Maeda

“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”

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Author:Ben Shneiderman

“Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order”

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Author:Victor Papanek

“You have to be interested in culture to design for it.”

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Author:Lorraine Wild

“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.”

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Author:David Coverdale

“Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.”

Voice Space Stage Design Fields Diversity Activism Advertising Urban Graphic Graphic Design Visibility

Book:Mixing Messages

Source: Mixing Messages

“Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.”

Should Wells Enough Able Knowing Design Roots Designer Graphic Graphic Design Plagiarism Reinvention Graphic Designer

Author:Steven Heller

“Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.”

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Book:The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters

Source: The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters

“Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.”

Giving Trying Art Ideas Design Graphic Graphic Design Commercial Art

Book:The Cheese Monkeys

Source: The Cheese Monkeys

“Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”

Form Plans Design Planning Graphic Graphic Design

Book:The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters

Source: The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters

“Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.”

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Book:The Cheese Monkeys

Source: The Cheese Monkeys

“It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.”

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Book:The queen of the sciences

Source: The queen of the sciences

“Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.”

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Author:Peter Saville

“Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.”

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Author:Peter Bilak

“For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind”

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Author:Armin Hofmann

“If you love something, the work will be just fine.”

Ifs Love Work Fine Photography Graphic Design Labor Of Love

Author:Herbert Matter

“Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.”

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Author:Jessica Helfand

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