Graphic design Quotes · Page 5

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into…

— Howard Rheingold

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

— Lester Beall

The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and…

— Tim Girvin

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

— Leonard Nimoy

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable…

— Biz Stone

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don't work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design…

— Franchesca Ramsey

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder

The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the…

— Alvin Lustig

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers…

— Jeff Fisher

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or…

— John Van Hamersveld

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall…

— Afrojack

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to…

— Zuzana Licko

It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking…

— Michael Bierut

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t…

— Jim Jarmusch

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

— Jonathan Hickman

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the…

— Susan Stewart

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

— Wolfgang Weingart

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

— Leonard Baskin

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

— Robert L. Peters

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for…

— Colleen Haskell

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew…

— Fred Foster

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

— Gerald Massey

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic…

— Neil Marshall

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself…

— Chip Kidd

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design…

— Gabriel Basso

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.…

— Jim Jarmusch

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's…

— Vaughan Oliver

When I first started my graphic design career, and 'Beach Culture' magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was…

— David Carson

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with…

— Shirin Ebadi

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design…

— Genevieve Gorder

I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design, and all in all, I can look back on my collegiate…

— Karen Bardsley

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the…

— Jessica Helfand

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

— Jessica Walsh

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

— Massimo Vignelli

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Chip Kidd

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

— Erik Adigard

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything…

— William Bell