I leave you the best graphic design phrases of famous designers, ideal to dedicate to friends who dedicate themselves to this world, to understand this process and to understand the importance of it in the contemporary world.
Some of the famous designers you will find below are Paul Rand, Paula Scher, Petrula Vrontkis, and Milton Glaser. You may also be interested in these marketing and advertising phrases or these about fashion.
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-Commercial art tries to make you buy things. Graphic design gives you ideas. -Chip Kidd.
-You can have an artistic experience in front of a Rembrandt painting… or in front of a piece of graphic design. -Stefan Sagmeister.
-Practice safe design; use a concept. -Petrula Vrontkis.
-Good design is about making other designers feel like idiots because the idea was not theirs. -Frank Chimero.
-Design is trying the opposite of chance, an antidote to accident. -Robert L. Peters.
-A good design is honest. -Dieter Rams.
-All great design begins with an even better story. -Lorinda Mamo.
-A good design encourages the viewer to want to learn more. -Alexander Isley.
-Design is the human ritual of understanding. -Maggie Macnab.
-Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of a design. -Ellen Lupton.
-Everything is design. Everything! -Paul Rand.
-The alternative to a good design is always a bad design. There is no such thing as a lack of design. -Adam Judge.
-It is through mistakes that you can grow. You have to do it wrong so that then you can do it right. -Paula Scher.
-Graphic design, if used effectively, is power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. The power to destroy an entire race, or save an entire nation from despair. -Chip Kidd.
-Graphic design by itself will never happen, because the concept cancels itself, a poster about nothing but itself is not graphic design, it is making art. -Chip Kidd.
-I struggle for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Good design is born from those two things. -Lindon Leader.
-It is much easier to build something new than to work on someone else's attempt. -Adam Judge.
-The best way to achieve a serious design is not to be qualified at all to do it. -Paula Scher.
-Design can be art. Design can be aesthetic. The design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated. -Paul Rand.
-The meaning of a logo derives from the quality of what it symbolizes, not the other way around. -Paul Rand.
-Thinking about design is difficult, but not thinking about it is disastrous. -Ralph Caplan.
-First create the bases, then refine the details. -Chris Anderson.
-The fonts are to the written word what the different dialects are to different languages. -Steven Heller.
-Design and art are two independent coordinates that provide the greatest satisfactions when experienced simultaneously. -Milton Glaser.
-The life of a designer is a struggle. A fight against ugliness. Just like a doctor fights illness. For us, visual disease is what we have around us, and we try to cure it in some way with design. -Massimo Vignelli.
-The details are not just the details. These make up the design. -Charles Eames.
-Design creates our culture, culture shapes our values and values determine the future. -Robert L. Peters.
-An effective and meaningful design requires intellectual and rational rigor, together with the ability to evoke emotions and beliefs. -Debbie Millman.
-Design is to communicate clearly by any means that you can control or dominate. -Milton Glaser.
-Never fall in love with an idea. They are unfortunate. If the idea you are working with does not work, always, always, there is always another. -Chip Kidd.
-The client may be the king, but he is not the artistic director. -Von Glitschka.
-I've never had a problem with a dumb customer. There is no such thing as a bad customer. Part of our job is to do a good job and get the customer to accept it. -Bob Gill.
-Everything is designed, but few things are designed well. -Brian Reed.
-Here is one of the few and most effective keys to the design problem: the designer's ability to recognize as many limitations as possible, as well as his willingness and enthusiasm to work with these limitations. -Charles Eames.
-Creativity is nothing but a way to solve new problems. -Diana Santos.
-Identifying the need is the primary condition for design. -Charles Eames.
-Design is more than a few tricks for the eye. They are a few tricks for the brain. -Neville Brody.
-Love blinds us. Never love something too much, be it an idea, a tool, a graphic, a technique, a technology, a client or a partner. -Adam Judge.
-The function of design is to let design work. -Micha Commeren.
-Get rid of anything that is not essential to make a point. -Cristoph Niemann.
-Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured in images, not ideas. -David Consuegra.
-Designing a product is designing a relationship. -Steve Rogers.
-Make it simple, but meaningful. -Don Draper.
-Design is intelligence made visible. -Alina Wheeler.
-The ability to simplify means eliminating the unnecessary so that the necessary can speak. -Hans Hofmann.
-The design is the intermediary between information and understanding. -Hans Hofmann.
-If you do good work for good clients, it will lead you to other good jobs with good clients. But if you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to more bad jobs for other bad clients. -Michael Bierut.
-Design is a solution to a problem; art is a question to a problem. -John Maeda.
-Design is a plan to organize elements in such a way that they achieve, in the best way, fulfill a particular purpose. -Charles Eames.
-It's not about knowing all the gadgets and tricks. If you don't have the eye, no computer program will give it to you. -David Carson.
-Simplicity is not the goal. The goal is the result of a good idea and modest expectations. -Paul Rand.
-Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, worry the day they stop doing it. -Jeffrey Zeldman.
-Design adds value faster than it adds cost. -Joel Spolsky.
-Never design for everyone. It is impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. -Leisa Reichelt.
-When you're stuck, get away from the computer and draw. It will teach you how to see. -Gerard Huerta.
-I will solve your problem and you will pay me. -Paul Rand.
-Less is not necessarily more. Simply enough is more. -Milton Glaser.
-The design cannot rescue a failed content. -Edward R. Tufte.
-They enjoy shaping ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they would be their own clients. -Rudy Vanderlans.
-Style is a way of communicating without having to speak. -Rachel Zoe.
-Design is thought turned into something visual. -Saul Bass.
-When the design is completed, it should look natural and obvious. It must look like it always should have been that way. And it must endure. -Roger Black.
-An image can only be one element in the construction of a sequence of understanding. -Germano Facetti.
-The public is more familiar with a bad design than with a good design. He is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design because that is what he is used to. The new becomes threatening, the old comforting. -Paul Rand.
-There is only one type of designer, the one who cares about the font. -Rohan Nanavati.
-The perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all the arts. -Jan Tschichold.
-Typography needs to be heard. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced. -Helmut Schmid.
-When people say: "I don't understand art"… that means that art is working. -John Maeda.
-The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and obtain information that allows him to make the invisible visible. -Hillman Curtis.
-The design is art optimized to meet objectives. -Shimon Shmueli.
-The content precedes the design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it is decoration. -Jeffrey Zeldman.
-The role of a designer is that of a considerate guest who anticipates the needs of his visitors. -Charles Eames.
-Design is found in everything we do, but it is also a mixture of skill, science, storytelling, propaganda and philosophy. -Erik Adigard.
-The dumbest mistake is to see the design as something you do at the end of the process to "clean up the mess", as opposed to considering it as something to implement from day one and as part of everything. -Tom Peterson.
-The real problem is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relation to will, desire and persistence. -Milton Glaser.
-Graphic design will save the world right after Rock and Roll does. -David Carson.
-Art is the only place where you can do whatever you want. That is freedom. -Paula Rego.
-People ignore designs that ignore people. -Frank Chimero.
-You cannot make a better computer design, but you can speed up the work substantially. -Wim Crouwel.
-Computers are to design as microwaves are to the kitchen. -Milton Glaser.
-The simplicity taken to the extreme, becomes elegance. -John Franklin.
-Marketing without design is bland, and design without marketing is dumb. -Von Glitschka.
-The designers could be the true intellectuals of the future. -Paola Antonelli.
-Only when the design fails, does it draw attention to itself; when it is successful, it is invisible. -John D. Berry.
-Technology over technique produces emotionless design. -Daniel Mall.
-The design is, literally, an intentional planning. Graphic design, then, is the form those plans will take. -Chip Kidd.
-I see design as a way to solve problems; and art as a way of inventing them. -Karl Gerstner.
-A good typeface can be completely destroyed when it is used in the wrong way or if it is used excessively. -Alexander Gelman.
-Designing is easy. All you have to do is watch the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead. -Marty Neumeiner.
-Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before being solved. The formulation of the question is part of the answer. -Piet Hein.
-There are three answers to a piece of design: yes, no and wow! The "wow" is our goal. -Milton Glaser.
-Design is not something you do, it is a lifestyle. -Alan Fletcher.
-There is no design without discipline. And there is no discipline without intelligence. -Massimo Vignelli.
-If you do it right, it will last forever. -Massimo Vignelli.
-Design is where science and art are in balance. -Robin Mathew.
-Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to summarize everything. -Tate Linden.
-A good design goes to heaven; and bad design goes everywhere. -Mieke Gerritzen.
-Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. -Massimo Vignelli.
-The design is a formal answer to a strategic question. -Mariona López.
-Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood. -Fabian Barral.
-Only those who dare to try the absurd will achieve the impossible. -MC Escher.
-Don't look for recognition, look for criticism. -Paul Arden.
-Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humor. -George Santayana.
-Design is both an act of space and an act of drawing. -Ellen Lupton.
-A bad design is smoke, while a good design is a mirror. -Juan Carlos Fernández.
-Simplicity is about removing the obvious and adding the important. -John Maeda.
-Design is not for philosophy, it is for life. -Issey Miyake.
-A good design is obvious, but a great design is transparent. -Joe Sparano.
-An effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy, spontaneity, intelligence and creativity. -Maggie Macnab.
-It seems to me that, without exception, the more I treat my work as something that is mine, as something personal, the more successful it is. -Marian Bantjes.
-When I studied graphic design I learned a valuable lesson: there is no perfect answer to a riddle, and creativity is a renewable resource. -Biz Stone.
-Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. -Neville Brody.
-Design is not only how it looks and feels, design is also how it works. -Steve Jobs.
-It is no secret that the real world in which the designer works is not the world of art, but the world of buying and selling. -Paul Rand.
-I want to do beautiful things, even if nobody cares, unlike ugly things. That is my intention. -Saul Bass.