"Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with……" — Paul Rand
"Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant."
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28 Quotes by Paul Rand
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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no…
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative…
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Design is everything. Everything!
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The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a…
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select…
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the…
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Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows,…
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Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or…
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I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism...…
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If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it…
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