"Typography is what language looks like." — Ellen Lupton

"Typography is what language looks like."

— Ellen Lupton

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15 Quotes by Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world.…
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…
Think more design less
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second…
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…
You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work…
Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices,…
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.…
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up…

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More Hipster Quotes

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. — William S. Burroughs
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. — Woody Allen
Rather be dead than cool. — Kurt Cobain
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. — Diablo Cody
Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable… — Diablo Cody
The visionary is the only realist. — Federico Fellini
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Literature + Illness = Illness — Roberto Bolano
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote… — Woody Allen

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