Sep
05
2012
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
Albert Einstein
Aug
29
2012
As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”
— Matthew Carter
Apr
05
2012
A random quote about design, culture and/or art.
Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty.
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance.
Form without...
Mar
29
2012
Make haste slowly.
-Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus 63 BCE -14 CE) quoted in Suetonius Augustus xxv. 4.
A good thought for graphic designers, artists and masters of the known world.
Feb
16
2012
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jan
05
2012
A random quote from a famous graphic designer on design, culture and art.
I appreciate the moral imperative that no task is so insignificant that it needn't me accomplished in keeping with the highest standard.
-Karl Gerstner
Dec
29
2011
A random quote from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
A logo derives its meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around.
- Paul Rand
Dec
22
2011
A random quote from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
There are no inferior tasks. There are only inferior solutions."
-Karl Gerstner
Dec
15
2011
A random quote from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
The printed sheet transcends space and time. The printed sheet, the infinity of the book, must be transcended. The Electro-library. - Eli Lissitzky 1923
Dec
08
2011
A random quote from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
Typography exists to honor content." - Robert Binghurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Dec
01
2011
A random quotes from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
As a craft, typography shares a long common boundary and many common concerns with writing and editing on the one side and with graphic design on the other;...
Nov
25
2011
A random quote from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
Good letterforms are designed to give a lively, even texture, but careless spacing of letters, lines and words can tear this fabric apart.
-Robert Binghurst, The Elements of Typographic...
