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“ The function of design is letting design function.
Micha Commeren
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“ 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.
Adrian Frutiger
“ A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
“ The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.
Tibor Kalman
“ Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
David Carson
“ 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.
Paul Rand
“ Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
Christopher Zeeman
“ Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
James Randolph Adams
“ Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
“ Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
“ Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
