Inspirational graphic design Quotes

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

— Michael Bierut

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

— Bruno Munari

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that…

— Paul Rand

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek

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

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

— Henrik Fisker

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

— Massimo Vignelli

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

— Saul Bass

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

— Jonathan Ive

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job…

— Bob Gill

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

— Paula Scher

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

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

— Robert L. Peters

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as…

— Marian Bantjes

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...

— Chip Kidd

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. ...

— Howard Aiken

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

— Wim Crouwel

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

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

— Neville Brody

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For…

— Massimo Vignelli

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Jeffrey Veen

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

— Thomas Manss

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

— Ellen Lupton