1,339 Quotes About Design

What a graphic designer tries to do is make sure the typography is emotionally consistent with the brand.

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form. Those pretty tools like glue and pens, pasting together look-books – for Sylvia it would have been like toy making or arranging jewels. Unfortunately, Sylvia’s flair for design and graphics went unnoticed by the Mademoiselle staff, who had already pigeonholed her as a “writer”.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Great design = getting people to do what you want.