Ellen Lupton Quotes

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• Typography is what language looks like.
• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced…
• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
• Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,…
• Think more design less
• Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the…
• Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
• Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.…
• You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is…
• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete…
• Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
• It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better…
• To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these…
• Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
• Design is art that people use,

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