Quotes on Graphic Artist

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.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

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

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

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.