Creativity Quote by Michael Bierut Download Open image “Simplicity, wit, and good typography.” — Michael Bierut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Design Simplicity Typography Wit
Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced. — Helmut Schmid Copy Share Image
We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside. — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography. — Herb Lubalin Copy Share Image
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
