Top 14 Ellen Lupton Quotes
#1. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
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#2. Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
Ellen Lupton
#3. To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
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#5. Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
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#6. Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
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#7. Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.
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#8. Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
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#10. It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
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#11. Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
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#13. Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.
Ellen Lupton
#14. Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.
Ellen Lupton
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