I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New… — John Butler Copy Share Image
Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced. — Helmut Schmid Copy Share Image
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface… — Will Burtin Copy Share Image
To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi. — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much… — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography… — Vincent Connare Copy Share Image
