I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything. — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I have half a dozen designers who work for me, they 'realise' most of the design work, and I act as the… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of typeface design and typographic design are designed to persuade: we can make this company look modern if we use… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
I wanted to be a graphic designer from the time I was 15, without ever having actually met one. I lived in the mid-west,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back… — Michael Bierut Copy Share
