Graphic Design Quotes
Collection of top 52 famous quotes about Graphic Design
Graphic Design Quotes & Sayings
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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
— Wim Crouwel
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
— Shannon L. Alder
I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
— Stefan Sagmeister
If you can't make it good, make it big.
— Michael Rowley
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
— Saint Augustine
Never mistake legibility for communication.
— David Carson
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
— Leonard Baskin
In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design." - Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When
— Marc Stickdorn
Inner beauty is for amateurs.
— Anne Taintor
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
— Edward R. Tufte
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
— Peter Bilak
Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.
— Steven Heller
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
— Gabriel Basso
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
— Paola Antonelli
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
— Massimo Vignelli
You cannot not communicate.
— Paul Watzlawick
Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.
— Michael Bierut
Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity.
— Maggie Macnab
If you jump, you best jump far.
— Tori Amos
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— Lewis Carroll
Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
— Chip Kidd
avoid underlining text, except in the case of hyperlinks.
— Graphic Design Artists United
Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.
— Jessica Helfand
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
— Ellen Lupton
You have to be interested in culture to design for it.
— Lorraine Wild
What a graphic designer tries to do is make sure the typography is emotionally consistent with the brand.
— Michael Ian Kaye
Design is a human ritual of understanding.
— Maggie Macnab
I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
— Massimo Vignelli
Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.
— Patrick Awuah Jr.
Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
— Hermann Zapf
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.
— Ellen Lupton
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
— Jonathan Hickman
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
— Ellen Lupton
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
— George Santayana
A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38)
— Woodrow Phoenix
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt ... or in front of a piece of graphic design.
— Stefan Sagmeister
Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.
— Jessica Walsh
I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
— Pierce Brosnan
A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.
— Carolina DeBartolo
