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> [I have half a dozen designers who work for me, they 'realise' most of the design work, and I act as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-have-half-a-dozen-designers-who-work-for-me-they-realise-most-of/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a18/michael-bierut-10873_clients_i-have-half-a-dozen-designers-who-work-f_1810867.png)

> [I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-m-not-an-expert-in-typefaces-that-serve-scientific-writing-but-i-d/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/michael-bierut-10873_dozen_i-m-not-an-expert-in-typefaces-that-serv_2713094.png)

> [In the US you have New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami and dozens of other cities; a few of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/in-the-us-you-have-new-york-san-francisco-los-angeles-boston-miami/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93e/michael-bierut-10873_boston_in-the-us-you-have-new-york-san-francisc_2761073.png)

## Other authors on Dozen

## More by Michael Bierut

> [I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-think-once-the-artistic-world-of-the-type-designer-merged-with-the/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/if-you-do-good-work-for-good-clients-it-will-lead-to-other-good-work/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/a-lot-of-times-you-design-a-logo-to-be-timeless-but-with-something/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-actually-think-it-almost-works-the-other-way-sometimes-making-a/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [I'm not sure about my design work every time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-m-not-sure-about-my-design-work-every-time/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/it-s-hard-to-predict-what-will-happen-as-reading-on-screen-becomes/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/it-was-stone-carvers-in-ancient-rome-scribes-in-the-middle-ages-all/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/australia-is-one-of-the-few-places-that-i-can-think-of-where-the/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/most-people-have-no-idea-how-much-goes-into-designing-a-typeface/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [The truth about logos is that they are not that hard to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/the-truth-about-logos-is-that-they-are-not-that-hard-to-do/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-m-always-conscious-of-the-context-the-history-the-specific/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/for-instance-i-assume-those-carrots-we-have-on-our-keyboards-were/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/if-you-look-at-the-olympic-graphics-for-mexico-or-los-angeles-those/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/i-wanted-to-be-a-graphic-designer-from-the-time-i-was-15-without-ever/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

> [Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bierut/compared-with-now-when-almost-everyone-knows-what-graphic-design-is/)

[Michael Bierut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bierut/)

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