50 design quotes you need to hear before you die

Quotes about graphic design

Words have a power greater than is usually believed. Many times it is a simple phrase that makes us make a decisive decision in our life or feel inspiration and embark on new projects. That is why today I would like to share with you all a collection of genius of great personalities who have been characterized by being masters in their disciplines.

I hope you enjoy them and if you have any more to add to this list Do not hesitate to leave us a comment!

1.-Everything is designed. Few things are well designed. - Brian reed

2.-There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. - Massimo Vignelli

3.-People ignore the design that ignores people.— Frank Chimero

4.-I have always clung to believe that the practice of creating compelling graphic design happens not using the principles of democracy, but rather, those of the monarchy. - Thomas vasquez

5.-Good design is obvious. The cool design is transparent. Joe sparano

6.-The dirty little secret of all designers is that they copy the work of other designers. They see the work they like and imitate it. Shamelessly enough, they call it inspiration. - Aaron russell

7.-The most innovative designs consciously deny the most normal box of options, cultivating a taste for wrong thinking. - Marty Neumeier

8.-Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: exchanging tough edges for subjective decisions based on primitive instincts and personal experiences. It's messy, unpredictable, and remarkably difficult to measure. The seemingly erratic behavior of artists drives engineers crazy. Their decisions seem arbitrary and put everything at risk with no guarantee of success. Scott stevenson

9.-Design is where science and art reach a point of equilibrium. - Robin mathew

10.-Good design goes to heaven, bad design everywhere.— mieke gerritzen

11.-A designer is a planner with a sense of good taste.— Bruno Munari

12.-Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and talent; intuition and reason; concept and detail; joy and formality; client and designer, designer and printer; printer and public. - Valerie Pettis

13.-Good design is a kind of clairvoyance made visual. - Edward Tufte

14.-Mathematics is easy; the design is tough. - Jeffrey veen

15.-The content precedes the design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it is decoration. Jeffrey zeldman

16.-A common mistake people make when trying to design something totally fool-proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of fools. Douglas Adams

17.-A designer can meditate on complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, pretty solution occurs to him. When this happens, it makes you feel like God is speaking to you! And maybe I will. Leo Frankowski

18.-Art is like masturbation. He's selfish and introverted and for you alone. Design is like sex. Someone else is involved, their needs are just as important as yours, and if all goes well, both parties are happy in the end. Colin wright

20.-I would like to show my work to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "How beautiful, dear." And then she would say, "did you write it?" or "did you do the drawing?" or "did you take photos?" I would always answer "no" and then I realized the problem. My response was, “I made it happen. It's called design. ”-    Brian webb

21.-If the design is not profitable, then it is art.— Henry Fiskar

22.-A good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea was not his.    Frank Chimero

23.-Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. David carson

24.-Practice safe design: Use a concept— Petrula vrontikis

25.-Create your own visual style ... let it be unique to you and identifiable to others.— Orson Welles

26.-The truly elegant design incorporates first-class functionality in a simple and uncluttered way.— David Lewis

27.-A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing to take away.— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

28.-Designers think everything done by someone else is horrible, and that they could do it better, which explains why I designed my own living room rug, I guess.— Chris bangle

29.-It is really difficult to design products by interest groups. Many times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs

30.-Many things difficult to design are usually easy to do.— Samuel Johnson

31.-The design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead. Marty Neumeier

32.-The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.— Victor papanek

33.-Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn to handle complexity instead of fleeing from it, and to realize the great art of design by making the complicated simple. Tim Parsey

34.-The public is more familiar with bad design than with good. It is conditioned to prefer design badly, because it is with which it lives. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. Paul Rand

35.-Designing a product is designing a relationship.— Steve Rogers

36.-A good design is a good business— Thomas J Watson Jr.

37.-A great design will not sell a poor quality product, but it will allow a great product to reach its full potential.— Thomas J Watson Jr.

38.-The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architecture and even urban design, is its insistence on serving the god of "good looks" rather than the god of "being-good" - Richard Saul Wurman  

39.-Design is a plan to order elements in the best possible way to carry out a particular purpose.— Charles Eames

40.-Everything is designed. Few things are well designed. - Brian reed

41.-The essence of creativity is not being afraid to fail. - Edward H Land

42.-A good artist copies, a great artist steals. - Pablo Picasso

43.-All children are artists. The problem is in remaining an artist when you grow up. Pablo Picasso

44.-Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Anonymous.

45.-Choose a job that you like and I assure you that you will never work again. Anonymous.

46.-The most optimal design process integrates the aspirations of art, science and culture. - Jeff Smith

47.-Design is more than an act of entertainment, an act of marking. - Ellen lupton

48.-Design is intelligence made visible.— Alina wheeler

49.-Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order. - Victor papanek

50.-The design tends to change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks.— Suleiman Leadbitter


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