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Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Sep 15, 2025
Design means being good, not just looking good.
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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.
Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
If design isn't profitable, then it's art.
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
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.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Design is where science and art break even.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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.
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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