Erik Spiekermann Quotes

#1. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design." - Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When

Marc Stickdorn

#2. The materials shape your idea.

Erik Spiekermann

#3. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Emma Thompson

#4. Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Erik Spiekermann

#5. Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It's an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

David Jeremiah

#6. Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Victoria Moran

#8. Never to reject someone just because they are not of your type or the way you want, accept them for what they are because if once they are changed they are one to reject you..

Sanjana Singh

#9. ...that kernel of gaiety that never breaks.

Evelyn Waugh

#10. If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

Erik Spiekermann

#12. You are what you are seen to be.

Erik Spiekermann

#13. I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

Jo Brand

#15. I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?

Erik Spiekermann

#16. They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

Erik Spiekermann

#17. Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

Erik Spiekermann

#18. All will be as it should, if we just do our best.

Louise Penny

#19. Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

Erik Spiekermann

#20. Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Sophocles

#21. I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Erik Spiekermann

#22. God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Erik Spiekermann

#24. Kinko's is the soup kitchen for the technologically disadvantaged.

Paul Orfalea