Ellen Lupton Quotes

#1. Typography is what language looks like.

Ellen Lupton

#2. ELIJAH A NOVEL FRANK REDMAN

Frank Redman

#3. There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people ... mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.

Richard Castle

#4. I am your husband, I will keep you safe and I will do it by keeping my feet on this earth, breathing the air and being there to make you feel safe. Do you understand this?

Kristen Ashley

#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Design is art that people use,

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#8. Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

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#9. It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

Elizabeth Wordsworth

#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.

Ellen Lupton

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

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#13. I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Alain Prost

#14. Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

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#15. 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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#16. Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

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#17. Think more design less

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#18. I'm timid, apparently I look like hell and have as many issues as People magazine

Maya Banks

#19. 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.

Ellen Lupton

#20. Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Ellen Lupton