Top 39 Graphic Design Is Quotes
#1. Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.
Michael Bierut
#2. Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.
Ellen Lupton
#3. Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana
#4. Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.
Jessica Helfand
#5. Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads
Rick Poynor
#6. Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
Ellen Lupton
#7. Shape Branding is Brand Design Agency. Our branding process will help you attract business without having to chase it. Brand Strategists based in Dublin, Ireland.Brand Identity Design
Graphic Design
#8. There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Massimo Vignelli
#9. I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
Dayo Okeniyi
#11. Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Edward R. Tufte
#12. Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.
Brian Michael Bendis
#14. I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
Massimo Vignelli
#15. 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
#16. Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
Hermann Zapf
#17. Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
Anurag Kashyap
#18. What a graphic designer tries to do is make sure the typography is emotionally consistent with the brand.
Michael Ian Kaye
#19. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.
Richard Saul Wurman
#20. Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
Martin Filler
#21. Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
Peter Bilak
#22. If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.
Paul Rand
#23. Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
Ellen Lupton
#24. Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Chip Kidd
#25. I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.
Brian Froud
#26. Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
Paul Rand
#28. When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.
Genevieve Gorder
#29. The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
Piet Zwart
#30. Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
Shannon L. Alder
#32. The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.
Rajneesh
#33. When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
Biz Stone
#34. Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.
Tom Ford
#35. My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
Jonathan Hickman
#36. 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.
Chip Kidd
#37. graphic design has only one thing left to do, which is posting itself on the internet?
Metahaven
#38. Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.
Steven Heller
#39. Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
