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.
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.
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.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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.
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