"Design is a response to a specific problem.……" — Chip Kidd

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a… - Chip Kidd

"Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is."

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15 Quotes by Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the…
Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can…
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...
I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point…
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If…
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so…
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always,…

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More Design Quotes

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — 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… — Lance Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — 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… — 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… — 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

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