Good design adds value of some kind, gives meaning, and, not incidentally, can be sheer pleasure to behold; it respects the viewer’s sensibilities and rewards the entrepreneur. —Paul Rand
Malcolm Gladwell once said…
Hard work is a prison cell only if the work has no meaning. —Malcolm Gladwell
Seth Godin once said…
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. —Seth Godin
Dieter Rams once said…
Question everything generally thought to be obvious —Dieter Rams For me, right now, this means – rethink all of my design tendencies. For example: Is Helvetica right for this project too? Does this website need to be centered (margin: 0 auto; for the web nerds)? Do buttons need rounded corners and a gradient? In your […]
Good design is….
Recently, I came across Dieter Rams’ ten principles of good design. I didn’t even know who Dieter Rams was – but assumed that he was surely a graphic designer, based on his definition of good design (and maybe the glasses). I was wrong! (which proves good design is transcendent) Dieter Rams is an industrial designer […]
A dreamer by day
All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. —T.E. Lawrence Here’s one question that comes to mind […]
Rebecca Reubens once said…
Design is to invent with intent. If you take away the ‘invent’ bit, you have an engineer. If you take away the ‘intent’ bit, you have an artist. —Rebecca Reubens
Milton Glaser once said…
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. —Milton Glaser
Keith Carter once said…
You can’t really say, visually, any more than you think and you can’t think any more deeply than the sum total of what you read. —Keith Carter, photographer
Leo Burnett once said…
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. —Leo Burnett