Graphic design Quotes · Page 5

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising…

— Ellen Lupton

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I…

— Trevor Donovan

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

— George Santayana

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

— Jef Raskin

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

— Mike Ness

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.

— Ginevra Elkann

[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

— Jacques Bertin

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether…

— Chris Geere

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan

Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you…

— Frans Johansson

Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is…

— Jessica Helfand

Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its…

— John A. Hiigli

In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the…

— Jacques Bertin

I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do…

— Ryan McGinley

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance…

— Jan Tschichold

Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content…

— Roger Black

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

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

— Chip Kidd

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

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Massimo Vignelli

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

— Jessica Walsh

I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a…

— Brian Froud

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

— Peter Bilak

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

— William Bell

I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

— April Greiman

People are always taken aback when they discover my university background, but I have always enjoyed art and graphic design.

— Dan Hardy

“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than…

— Chip Kidd

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do…

— Michael Bierut

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements…

— John Maeda

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

— John Maeda

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design…

— Ryan McGinley

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

— El Lissitzky

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into…

— Craig David

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

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

— Susan Stewart

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

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

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