Quotes on Inspirational Design

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.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

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.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.