Explore Quotes on Design

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

Science only answers 'How?'_x000D__x000D_Religion only answers 'Why?'_x000D__x000D_The two combined is the true design,_x000D__x000D_So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

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.

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.