Books Quote by Erik Spiekermann Download Open image “Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.” — Erik Spiekermann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Designer Fashion Inspirational Reader Worst Worst thing Worst things
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about. — Jenny Packham Copy Share Image
Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good. — Helen Van Wyk Copy Share Image
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases. — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
“I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?” — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
Inherent quality is part of absolute quality and without it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image