I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from 1991 and look at all the names and appointments and things that, at the time, seemed so important. Meetings that I was really worried about, things that I was getting calls four times a day about, and I wonder, "Where did it all go? Where are they now?" It's so strange, everything has disappeared. The only thing that stays behind is the work.
Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at. - Michael Bierut
Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.
- Michael Bierut
The problem contains the solution. - Michael Bierut
The problem contains the solution.
The truth about logos is that they are not that hard to do. - Michael Bierut
The truth about logos is that they are not that hard to do.
Simplicity, wit, and good typography. - Michael Bierut
Simplicity, wit, and good typography.
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying. - Michael Bierut
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.
Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the word… - Michael Bierut
Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the word…
Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith. - Michael Bierut
Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.
Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. - Michael Bierut
Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.
BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE. - Michael Bierut
BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.
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