Occupation: Graphic Designer Birth: November 21, 1928
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game..
Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we ….
This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design i….
You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that..
Neutrality has its own aesthetics..
The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much..
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously..
Living with computers gives funny ideas..
Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal..