"A designer without a sense of history is…" — Massimo Vignelli

"A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing"

— Massimo Vignelli

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25 Quotes by Massimo Vignelli

Massimo Vignelli has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against…
A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.
The repercussion of ugliness is endless.
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of…
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory…
I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen…
Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information…
The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants…
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening…

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More Designer Quotes

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Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks
Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I… — Bjork
I don't consider myself a fashion designer. — Manolo Blahnik
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. — Erma Bombeck
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. — Erma Bombeck
Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating. — Elayne Boosler
Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion… — Gisele Bundchen
It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the… — Julie Burchill
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours… — Steve Buscemi
There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within… — Ron Ben-Israel

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