Type & Design Quotes

Inspiring quotes from well known type designers and graphic designers
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"If you are going to create something that is truly a breakthrough, you have to rely on your intuition and your judgment." ~Wally Olins Quote design: Christal Sih | OCD @ocdagency @MICA_GD Typography, Design, Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Judgment, Breakthrough, Intuition, Design Quotes, Olin
"If you are going to create something that is truly a breakthrough, you have to rely on your intuition and your judgment." ~Wally Olins Quote design: Christal Sih | OCD @ocdagency @MICA_GD
“Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. ” ~Debbie Millman    Quote design: Scott Allen Hill | OCD Agency  @debbiemillman @ScottAllenHill @OCDAgency Art, Summer, Graphic Design, Type Design, Typo Design, Graphic, Typo
“Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. ” ~Debbie Millman Quote design: Scott Allen Hill | OCD Agency @debbiemillman @ScottAllenHill @OCDAgency
Image Credit: Instagram.com/muccadesign Instagram, Type, Image
Image Credit: Instagram.com/muccadesign
“Look at historical reference, look at old type books, there are so many old typefaces that are no longer available. Resurrect old fonts that you wouldn't use ordinarily.”
 ~Louise Fili #quote #qotw #typography #LouiseFili #typefaces #fonts #typespiration Fonts, Books, Old Fonts, Cards Against Humanity
“Look at historical reference, look at old type books, there are so many old typefaces that are no longer available. Resurrect old fonts that you wouldn't use ordinarily.” ~Louise Fili #quote #qotw #typography #LouiseFili #typefaces #fonts #typespiration
“Calligraphy is the most intimate, private, and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice it is unique with every person.” ~Hermann Zapf #quote #qotw #HermannZapf #Zapfino #typography #typespiration Letters, Writing, Calligraphy
“Calligraphy is the most intimate, private, and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice it is unique with every person.” ~Hermann Zapf #quote #qotw #HermannZapf #Zapfino #typography #typespiration
“The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.” ~ Zuzanna Licko  #quote #qotw #ZuzannaLicko #Emigre #typography #typefaces #fonts #readability #tdc Reading, Popular, Cognitive, Quote, To Tell
“The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.” ~ Zuzanna Licko #quote #qotw #ZuzannaLicko #Emigre #typography #typefaces #fonts #readability #tdc
"Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy." ~Ellen Lupton  Image Credit: CURTIS CANHAM, CSACreative #quote #qotw #EllenLupton #letters #typography #type #kerning #typespiration Love, Love One Another, Great Words, Words, Hard Times, Do Love
"Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy." ~Ellen Lupton Image Credit: CURTIS CANHAM, CSACreative #quote #qotw #EllenLupton #letters #typography #type #kerning #typespiration
"My world is black and white. I like straight lines and curves. I am happy in that world." ~Bruno Maag  #quote #qotw #BrunoMaag #Font #InterFace #Fontshop #lines #curves #typespiration #typography Typed Quotes, Lines, I Am Happy
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"My world is black and white. I like straight lines and curves. I am happy in that world." ~Bruno Maag #quote #qotw #BrunoMaag #Font #InterFace #Fontshop #lines #curves #typespiration #typography
"Lettering is an Art and a Craft, it requires skill in draughtsmanship, penmanship and inkmanship. It requires a sure knowledge of forms and style supported by solid technical experience in art and printing. This is what we spend our life in getting. This is what is sieved through into each piece of work." ~Arnold Bank   #quote #qotw #ArnoldBank #letterer #calligrapher #typography #calligraphy #design #art #craft #penmanship #inkmanship #forms #style #printing #lettering #handlettering Hand Lettering, Inked Men, Knowledge
"Lettering is an Art and a Craft, it requires skill in draughtsmanship, penmanship and inkmanship. It requires a sure knowledge of forms and style supported by solid technical experience in art and printing. This is what we spend our life in getting. This is what is sieved through into each piece of work." ~Arnold Bank #quote #qotw #ArnoldBank #letterer #calligrapher #typography #calligraphy #design #art #craft #penmanship #inkmanship #forms #style #printing #lettering #handlettering
"The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer." ~Piet Zwart   #quote #qotw #tdc #PietZwart #typography #type #lettering #letters Lettering, Letter, Letter S
"The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer." ~Piet Zwart #quote #qotw #tdc #PietZwart #typography #type #lettering #letters
"Believe in things and they will believe in you" ~Anon  Poster designed by @timbelonax, printed on reclaimed presentation boards with leftover ink.  Join Tim Belonax on June 7th, 2016 at the TDC. Learn more and register online: www.eventbrite.com/e/tim-belonax-neomodernist-graffiti-tagging-tickets-21318801108  #qotw #quote #believe #tdc #tdcsalon #tdcevents #events #NYC #TimBelonax #NeomodernistGraffitiTagging #Graffiti #logo #bradning #symbol #design #typography Vintage Graphic Design, Inspiration, Posters, Graffiti, Graffiti Lettering, Poster Art, Typography Letters
"Believe in things and they will believe in you" ~Anon Poster designed by @timbelonax, printed on reclaimed presentation boards with leftover ink. Join Tim Belonax on June 7th, 2016 at the TDC. Learn more and register online: www.eventbrite.com/e/tim-belonax-neomodernist-graffiti-tagging-tickets-21318801108 #qotw #quote #believe #tdc #tdcsalon #tdcevents #events #NYC #TimBelonax #NeomodernistGraffitiTagging #Graffiti #logo #bradning #symbol #design #typography
"La tipografía es la voz del mensaje" (“Type is the voice for the message”) ~ Andreu Balius, Type Republic #quote #qotw #andreubalius #typography #type #typerepublic #woodtype #letterpress #madetofit #tdcsalon #tdc Logos, Frases
"La tipografía es la voz del mensaje" (“Type is the voice for the message”) ~ Andreu Balius, Type Republic #quote #qotw #andreubalius #typography #type #typerepublic #woodtype #letterpress #madetofit #tdcsalon #tdc
"All women, men and children are designers. All that we do, almost all the time, is design, for design is basic to all humanity. The planning and patterning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end constitutes the design process. Any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself, works counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life." ~Victor Papanek, 'Design for The Real World', 1985 Image Credit: @vince_frost ‘Design Your Life’ #quote #designquote #tdc Quotations, Designers, Design Process
Home - Design Your Life
"All women, men and children are designers. All that we do, almost all the time, is design, for design is basic to all humanity. The planning and patterning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end constitutes the design process. Any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself, works counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life." ~Victor Papanek, 'Design for The Real World', 1985 Image Credit: @vince_frost ‘Design Your Life’ #quote #designquote #tdc
"The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer's task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them." ~Adrian Frutiger  #quote #qotw #designquote #AdrianFrutiger #tribute #typography #typefacedesign #typeface #avenir #typespiration Layout, Editorial, Layout Design, Typeface Design
"The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer's task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them." ~Adrian Frutiger #quote #qotw #designquote #AdrianFrutiger #tribute #typography #typefacedesign #typeface #avenir #typespiration
"Big ideas are usually simple ones" ~David Ogilvy (designed by Stephen Powers)  #qotw #quote #DavidOgilvy #StephenPowers #ESPO #ideas #bigideas #typography #typespiration Marketing Quotes, Mather, Ogilvy Mather, Stephen, Advertising Quotes, David Ogilvy, Creative Department, Ad Agency
Openings: Stephen “ESPO” Powers – “Flights of Genius” @ Ogilvy & Mather « Arrested Motion
"Big ideas are usually simple ones" ~David Ogilvy (designed by Stephen Powers) #qotw #quote #DavidOgilvy #StephenPowers #ESPO #ideas #bigideas #typography #typespiration