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"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

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"The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design."

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"It is far easier to build something new than to rework someone else's attempt."

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"Love blinds us. Don't love anything - an idea, a tool, a graphic, a technique, a technology, a Client, or colleague too much."

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"Design is not a thing you do, it is a way of life."

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

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"Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more."

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"There is no better designer than nature."

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"Design is intelligence made visible."

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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."

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"Tell me and i forget, teach me and i may remember, involve me and i learn."

Quotes 12
"Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion."

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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."

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"When people talk about innovation in this decade, they really mean design."

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"A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense."

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"Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is solving them."

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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

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"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."

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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

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"Any time one or more things are consciously put together in a way that they can accomplish something better than they could have accomplished individually, this is an act of design."

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"Design is an expression of the purpose, and it may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art; design depends largely on constraints and it is a method of action (there are always constraints and these usually include ethic)."

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"The Details are not the details. They make the design."

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"The role of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests."

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"Nail the basics first, detail the detsils later."

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"Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking."

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"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."

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"Technology over technique produces emotionless design."

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"Never let any established system constrain your imagination and pursuit of what you believe in. If you can dream it you can make it happen."

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

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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."

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"My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. that’s our job."

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"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul."

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"Good design is honest."

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"Make it simple, but significant."

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"When we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."

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"Design is more than how it looks. Design is concerned with how things work, how things are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology. When done well, the results are brilliant, pleasurable products."

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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."

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"The mind's eye can compose far more elaborate designs than can be seen by the physical."

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"Clutter is a failure of design, not an attribute of information."

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"Design cannot rescue failed content."

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"Design is about finding the best solution. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better."

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

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"Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking."

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"Think more, Design less."

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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."

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"Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

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"People ignore design that ignores people."

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"Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn't theirs."

Quotes 50
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one , joined in a spiritual union."

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"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or sledge hammer on the construction site."

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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."

Quotes 53
"You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking."

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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."

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"When you are stuck, walk away from the computer and draw. It will teach you how to see"

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"An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding."

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"I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers."

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"Design is the intermediary between information and understanding."

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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

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"Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced."

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"Good design is like a refrigerator—when it works, no one notices, but when it doesn’t, it sure stinks."

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"There is no such thing as a boring project. There are only boring executions."

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"Design is not for Philosophy it’s for life."

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"The design process is basic problem-solving."

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"[Designers] don’t get hired to make pretty things or win design awards. We get hired to solve business problems."

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"Design is a body language for inanimate objects."

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"Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."

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"Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, its decoration."

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"Design brings content into focus; design makes function visible."

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"Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldly."

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"Good design is obvious, great design is transparent."

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"Design adds value faster than it adds costs."

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"He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors"

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"Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play."

Quotes 75
"Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible."

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"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

Quotes 77
"When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working."

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"Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem."

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"Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance."

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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

Quotes 81
"Good graphic design solutions to communication problems can improve the flow of information in society and, therefore, substantially and positively affect education, social well-being and the daily enjoyment of life. In addition, good graphic design solutions can also have a positive economic impact."

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"Effective design occurs when negative and positive spaces are in harmony."

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"Socrates said, ‘Know thyself.’ I say, ‘Know thy users.’ And guess what? They don’t think like you do."

Quotes 84
"I see design as a matter of solving problems; art as matter of inventing them."

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"Waste is a design flaw."

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"Learning is more effective when it is active rather than a passive process."

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"Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships."

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"Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy."

Quotes 89
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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"Grids do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the content. We never start with a grid. We start with an idea which is then translated into a form, a structure."

Quotes 91
"I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things."

Quotes 92
"Every great design begins with an even better story."

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"Form follows function."

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"No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood."

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"Less is More"

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"Visual organization is the deliberate prioritization of meaning within a visual design. It’s the process of applying the principles behind perception - how we make sense of what we see - to illuminate relationships between content and actions."

Quotes 97
"The more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is."

Quotes 98
"Design is a formal response to a strategic question."

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

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"Design is easy. all you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood mormon your forehead."

Quotes 101
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun."

Quotes 102
"Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style."

Quotes 103
"I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable."

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

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"There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence."

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"If you do it right, it will last forever."

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"Think about what your learners need to do with that information after the course is finished and design around that."

Quotes 108
"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible."

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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

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"The function of design is letting design function."

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"Boring and effective are mutually exclusive attributes in learning."

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"Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere."

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"Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose."

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"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire and persistence."

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"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

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"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."

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"There are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for."

Quotes 118
"What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds — the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes — and you try to bring the two together."

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""Design is not a single object or dimension. Design is messy and complex.""

Quotes 120
"Design is more than just a few tricks to the eyes. it's a few trick to the brain."

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

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"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."

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"Good art inspires, Good design motivates."

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

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"Design transcends agenda. It speaks to the politics of optimism."

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"One eye sees, the other feels"

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"A line is a dot that went for a walk"

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

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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."

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"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry."

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"Good design doesn't date. Bad design does."

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"Good design is the result of a process. The designer does not begin with some preconceived ideas. Rather, the idea is the result of careful study and observation, and the design a product of that idea."

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"A logo derives meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around."

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"Everything is design. Everything!"

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"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."

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

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

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"The best way to accomplish serious design is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job."

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"It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds."

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"Design thinking provides a set of creative methodologies for solving problems and generating ideas that is based on building up solutions, rather than starting with the answer."

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"Practice Safe Design: Use a concept."

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

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"creativity is to think more efficiently."

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"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer."

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"Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak."

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"If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design."

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"Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous."

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"I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me."

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"Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended."

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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem."

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"Design is the intermediary between information and understanding."

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"The motivation for design comes from an unfailing sense of wonder about light and its effects on the form of everyday images."

Quotes 153
"The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable."

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

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"Design is the application of intent the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident."

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"There is only one type of designer — the type that cares about type."

Quotes 157
"Great design is all about details. With innovative material selection, sensible construction techniques and modern aesthetics one can craft a unique design language that sets a new standard."

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"They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients."

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"Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it."

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"Design is thinking made visule."

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"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares as opposed to ugly things. That’s my intent."

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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep."

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"The original idea makes design distinctive, function makes it work and quality adds value."

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"Design is art optimized to meet objectives."

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"The most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details."

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"Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty."

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"You can have an art experience in front of rembrandt…or in front of a piece of graphic design."

Quotes 168
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

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"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

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"Design is a fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."

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"Accessible design is good design."

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"Designing a product is designing a relationship."

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"Every project for me has been a new learning and a new beginning."

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"Essentials of design - purity, precision, details."

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"Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up."

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"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."

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"Good design is good business."

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"Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential."

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"Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems."

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"A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together."

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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

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"The client may be king, but he’s not the art director."

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"Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute."

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"There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman."

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"Each color lives by its mysterious life."

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"That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul."

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"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

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

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"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.""

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"Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity."

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"The design of negative space can be just as important as the positive image."

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"Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror."

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"Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

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"Design reveals what Art conceals."

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"Design is the purpose of elements like composition, proportion and balance."

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"Design is where science and art break even."

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"And when a design is completed, it should seem natural and obvious. It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last."

Quotes 199
"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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"Bad design is like wearing a rumpled suit. it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person, but it may give people the wrong impression.