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Paul Rand once said…

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

Design Concept/Ideas, Inspiration, Someone Once Said...

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 […]

Design Concept/Ideas, Graphic Design, Someone Once Said...

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 […]

Inspiration, Someone Once Said...

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 […]

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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

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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

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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