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.
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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.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
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