"To say a grid is limiting is to……" — Ellen Lupton
"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 media critically or passively."
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15 Quotes by Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton has 15 quotes on this site.
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Typography is what language looks like.
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Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world.…
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
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Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to…
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Think more design less
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Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second…
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Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
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Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate…
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You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work…
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Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices,…
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
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It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends.…
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More Critically Quotes
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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media -…
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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even…
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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that…
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on…
— John O. Brennan
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I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
— Chelsea Clinton
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
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You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out…
— Lee Ann Womack
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It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
— Colin Powell
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Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories…
— Karl Popper
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best…
— Carl Sagan
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