The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.
Massimo VignelliRead
Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Design needs structure and discipline to be effective; without it, it can become chaotic and irresponsible.
The quote by Massimo Vignelli emphasizes the importance of discipline in the field of design. It suggests that without a guiding structure and responsible practices, design efforts can devolve into chaos, rendering them ineffective and irresponsible. This highlights the balance required between creativity and discipline to produce meaningful and functional design work.
Themes
DesignDisciplineCreativityStructureResponsibility
In practice
Example use cases
In a design seminar, to emphasize the balance needed in design work.
More from Massimo Vignelli
All quotes βDesigners take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.
Massimo VignelliRead
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
Massimo VignelliRead
Good design is ubiquitous and forever.
Massimo VignelliRead
A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing
Massimo VignelliRead
I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
Massimo VignelliRead
Similar quotes
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
Mary OliverRead
There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.
Oscar De La RentaRead
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
Carl SaganRead
I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
Ken LiuRead
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady GagaRead
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
Frank MillerRead