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.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
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.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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.
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.
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
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.
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