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The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
Sep 17, 2025
As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for CXC and got a grade 2 at the general proficiency level. I was devastated because I was aspiring for a grade 1. I took a break from art when I went to A level because I could not cope with the disappointment of my Grade 2. But I guess when you love doing something you just can't turn you back on it completely.
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.
I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.
We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
If you can design one thing, you can design everything.
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
I wanted to be a graphic designer from the time I was 15, without ever having actually met one. I lived in the mid-west, not in a media centre, and I didn't know anyone who did that for a living. It took me a while to find out what that thing I wanted to do was actually called, but once I sorted that out I got really interested in it.
I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
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.
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
If design isn't profitable, then it's art.
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.
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job.
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.
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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.
I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like a splinter in your mind and you cant get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called The Hunger Games.
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.
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.
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.
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.