Comes and goes Quote by Ivan Chermayeff

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication,…

— Khoi Vinh

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as…

— Clay Shirky

There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing…

— Yoon Ahn

“Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first…

— Alfred Hermida

The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems,…

— Will Burtin

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must…

— Ivan Chermayeff

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos…

— John Hockenberry

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

— Katherine McCoy

“Design is body language for inanimate objects.”

— Jarod Kintz

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

— Anonymous

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

— Jeffrey Veen