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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. The post Robert A. Heinlein appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Design is not about learning to think outside the box, it’s about finding the right box to think inside of. The post Aza Raskin appeared first on Quotes on Design.

When typography is on point, words become images. The post Shawn Lukas appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Helvetica is good for typographers who do not know what to say. The post Thomas Bohm appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. The post Robert Bringhurst appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Have you ever tried multiplying roman numerals? It’s incredibly, ridiculously difficult. That’s why, before the 14th century, everyone thought that multiplication was an incredibly difficult concept, and only for the mathematical elite. Then Arabic numerals came along, with their nice place values, and we discovered that even seven-year-olds can handle multiplication just fine. There was nothing difficult about the concept of multiplication—the problem was that numbers, at the time, had a bad user interface. The post Bret Victor appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Whoever heard of a musician who was passionately fond of B flat? Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. The post John Sloan appeared first on Quotes on Design.

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. The post David Ogilvy appeared first on Quotes on Design.

If tools give too much control, you might end up doing exactly what you were trying to do, and that might not be very good. The post Ezra Caldwell appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. The post Ted Turner appeared first on Quotes on Design.

As designers, you live in the future. It’s not that we are not interested in the work we’ve done before; it’s just we are so consumed by what we haven’t done yet. The post Viran Anuradha Dayaratne appeared first on Quotes on Design.

To be a good designer you must be a good engineer in every sense: curious, inquisitive. The post Charles Eames appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Visual design is powerful, but the words are what people quote to one another. They are the only part of the design that survives across time and media types. They can be held intact in a human mind. The post Erika Hall appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Nothing will crush your creative career like the weight of trying to make it a masterpiece. Leave the art to the stuff you make, let the career be a big messy experiment. The post Andy J. Pizza appeared first on Quotes on Design.

There’s no such thing as boring design projects, just boring designers. The post Lou Dorfsman appeared first on Quotes on Design.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. The post Eleanor Roosevelt appeared first on Quotes on Design.

Photographing something is a way of possessing it. It confirms your connection to places and objects once distant and remote, making the world slightly smaller and less alienating. The post Laura Mallonee appeared first on Quotes on Design.