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Design Quotes by Ellen Lupton
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Design is art that people use,
More Design Quotes
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks