- Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. - Brian Reed
- Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration. - Aaron Russell
- Design is where science and art break even. - Robin Mathew
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
- Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end. - Colin Wright
- Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs. - Frank Chimero
- Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. - Orson Wells
- Good ideas turn into good designs fairly quickly. If you catch yourself fiddling too much with colors, borders and treatments to bring a design together, chances are the problem lies somewhere deeper - Ryan Singer
- Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating
sep 6 2011 ∞
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