From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
Interpretation
Legibility and beauty in design are closely connected, and good type design should be effortlessly intuitive.
Adrian Frutiger emphasizes the significance of balancing legibility and aesthetic beauty in typographic design. He argues that while both elements are vital, the impact of type should be subtle enough that the reader engages with the content without being distracted by the design itself.
In practice
During a presentation on graphic design principles, this quote can illustrate the harmony between form and function.
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'
Music isn't about music, it's about life.
An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
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