Asymmetry Quote by Jan Tschichold Download Open image “Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.” — Jan Tschichold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asymmetry Design Expression Inspirational
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior. — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene. — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
“Design means how something works, not how it looks – the design should evolve from the function. —James Dyson” — John Morgan Copy Share Image
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call “belief”) play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions… — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
