as8: Quotes on Graphic Design
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Quote #232
" If fun and recreation continue to be a pervasive attraction and subtle
expectation for students to attend school emotionally and physically,
how will they adjust to the workplace where hard work, dedication and
persistence, outside the realm of fun and even enjoyment, are necessary to
compete and to succeed professionally?
Reading with purpose, listening to the teacher, taking notes during a lesson,
that's not fun. Add to the job description of a teacher: entertainer."
Alan Pagano
www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/pagano
Quote #231
" If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity,
how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul,
do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat,
know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ? "
Diane Ackerman
www.flickr.com/people/nicolebriant
Quote #230
" There is more to life than increasing its speed. "
Gandhi
http://tinybuddha.com/quotes/september-23-2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi
Quote #229
" Know who you are. Be what you know. "
Koan #4
index ZEN by Güneş Davenport
http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/ZEN/koan4.htm
http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/ZEN/zenphilosophy.htm
Quote #228
" A wise person once said that you're only as creative as the obscurity of your sources. "
House Industries
www.houseind.com/clothing/mens/mensampersandtee
Quote #227
" ‘Poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music’
and ‘music begins to atrophy when it gets too far from dance.’ "
Calligraphy, like dance, is an interaction of movement and pause, energy and stillness… "
Stephen Addiss
Introduction to ‘77 Dances’ book
www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-0-8348-0571-2
Quote #226
" The dreamer is the whole dream.
For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives,
our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding. "
Tim Girvin
www.girvin.com/new/brand_by_hand.php
Quote #225
" Possible ≠ Desirable "
Terry Irwin (1964-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Irwin
Quote #224
" To wrap up, logo design is one of the most demanding areas of graphic design.
Logos have a big job to do: they represent your company, convey your image,
and greet customers on the face of your stationary and business cards.
Choosing the right company logo design, and the right design firm,
is one of the best things you can do to help your marketing efforts. "
Elo Mark de B.
http://thinksmartdesigns.com/company-logo-design
Quote #223
" Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more. "
Alexander Isley
www.quaysidepub.com/bookimages/corporatebrochure.pdf
Quote #222
" We don’t give answers. Unless we can explore your question. "
EdenSpiekermann Manifesto
http://fontfeed.com/2009/edenspiekermann.png
www.edenspiekermann.com/en/about/manifesto
Quote #221
" The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that
the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional
policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to
change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids.
’But we’ve always…’, ‘But the parents will never…’, ‘But we can’t be the
only school in the area to…’ – all such protestations are unpersuasive
to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things
differently, then the question isn’t whether to change course but how
to make it happen. "
Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/
Quote #220
" Talent does what it can, but genius does what it must. "
Gabriel Robins
http://video.google.com/pausch/time-management
Quote #219
" Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire,
that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters.
Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well; managing your
time well makes you successful. Goals, Priorities, and Planning.
Why am I doing this?
What is the goal?
Why will I succeed?
What happen if I chose not to do it?
'Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement'. "
Randy Pausch
Quote #218
" If the world of print protects the private identities,
the world of electricity actually threatens them.
New important technologies turns the previous important technologies
into its content; they features that content as the most prevalent
offer, and at the same time it turns that content into an art form
– e.g., cinema makes theater its content; Youtube is the art form
of television turned content by Internet.
'In any problem whatever, one in a million would see no problem.
The real problem is how do you reach this person who has the answer' (1974).
'This kind of environment that we have, an information environment,
electrically programmed, turns the entire planet into a teaching machine,
and it's a man-made teaching machine. One of the results of the man-made
environment becoming a teaching machine is that the audience becomes
workforce' (1966). "
Derrick de Kerckhove
The Era of the Tag
www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/derrickdekerckhove
Quote #217
" Tribes are what matters now.
What tribes are is a very simple concept that goes back 50,000 years;
it's about leading and connecting people and ideas – and that's something
people have wanted for ever. All tribes leader have carisma.
But you don't need carisma to become a leader – being a leader gives you carisma.
Find something worth changing and then assembling tribes that spread the idea
to the point where it becomes a movement.
Tell a Story; Connect a Tribe; Lead a Movement; Make Change.
Who exactly are you upsetting.
Who are you connecting.
Who are you leading.
How to change everything?
Challenge the status quo; Build a culture; Commit. "
Seth Godin
www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/seth-godin
Quote #216
" Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself,
or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn’t know how to do those things by doing it for me.
Things that I can’t do myself, my graduate students should be doing. "
John Maeda’s Policy as a Professor
http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/posts/maedapolicy.pdf
http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/posts/community.pdf
www.facebook.com/feed/maeda-professor
Quote #215
" The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each designer
can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style.
But one must learn how to use the grid;
it is an art that requires practice. "
Josef Müller-Brockmann
www.filterfine.com/resources/jmb/bio.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Müller-Brockmann
Quote #214
" I did end up finding one compelling potential example of a movement
that attempts to make goods speak to power in the age of marketing...
In fact, its roots are in something like the opposite of mass production:
the handmade. "
Rob Walker
www.craftcouncil.org/conference09
Quote #213
" A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic,
objective economist and evolutionary strategist. "
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
Quote #212
" Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right
and needs to be told so appropriately. "
John Maeda
http://twitter.com/johnmaeda/statuses/1866091738
Quote #211
" Mom came as guest to me; For two days or maybe three;
So I introduce to Her: This it toilet, kitchen room; This is soap, and this is bath;
There are cockroaches here too; Living temporarily with us;
Mother asked me, uncertain; Is it true that they're for short time?
Oh my Lord, we're all here for just a short time! "
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (1940-2007)
Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович При́гов
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Prigov
Quote #210
" The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real.
Blinking is only human. "
John Maeda
http://twitter.com/johnmaeda/status/1550290437
Quote #209
" Branding is all about the ability of an enterprise to successfully deliver
on promises made to the public, whether they come in the form of a guarantee
of a high-quality product or a first-class education.
Effective branding addresses all aspects of corporate or institutional culture,
including the public face presented by staff and their working environment.
Any enterprise that pays careful attention to every detail of the customer
experience will have visitors who are happier, and who have better first and
last impression. Today that matters. "
Sylvia Harris
www.designigniteschange.org/advisors/sylvia-harris
Quote #208
" We know it is almost impossible to imagine visual perception without colors. "
David Gibson
www.twotwelve.com/wayfinding-handbook
Quote #207
" Memory feeds projects, project guide activity.
La memoria alimenta il progetto; il progetto guida il fare. "
Fabrizio M. Rossi
Quote #206
" In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some
of the most established dimensions of human life:
time, space, matter, and individuality.
Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite
maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order
to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale.
Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance.
One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life,
and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements
by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science
and technology evolve. "
Paola Antonelli
www.indexaward.dk/paola-antonelli
Quote #205
" The teacher must create an environment in which the student can learn – which
is simple, direct and honest. A true life learning. You can't push information
into an unwilling brain. There's no such thing as teaching. Only learning.
Your style of leadership will be one of the most important choices you will make
– the measure of control over who you are and what sort of character you embody.
Focus on the things that make a difference and work on them as hard as you can.
Be consistent in everything you do; in a quote from teh Greek philosopher Plutarch,
'The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.' "
Monty Roberts
Horse Sense for People
www.montyroberts.com/ju_ask_monty.html
www.equinetourism.co.uk/editorial/montyroberts
Quote #204
" Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal
goes down into the earth ? "
Qóelet
Ecclesiastes 3:21
www.facebook.com/asegalini/dogs-have-souls
Quote #203
" Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration.
However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on
competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy
results and sustainability. "
David B. Berman
Quote #202
" If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. "
Eric Gill
http://welovetypography.com/post/4143
http://twitter.com/typegirl/statuses/1957087323
http://welovetypography.com/data/images/2009/05/he-gtb-m.jpg
Quote #201
" Beauty is the brilliance of truth. "
Saint Augustine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
Quote #200
" I believe that compliance alone is not sufficient for outstanding performance.
Blind obedience is not pleasurable nor does it produce a sense of accomplishment.
[…] If we give everyone we come in contact with the freedom to choose an outcome
while encouraging him to be aware of his responsibilities, then he will learn to
make better choices, and if we earn trust and accept our responsibilities, then
we take a giant step toward creating successful relationships.
Removing responsibility and tightening control directly reduce the learning process.
If we trust others because we have caused them to trust us we have completed the
circle necessary for exemplary communication. "
Monty Roberts
Horse Sense for People
www.montyroberts.com/ju_ask_monty.html
www.equinetourism.co.uk/editorial/montyroberts
Quote #199
" Power is an interesting word because if you take away its negative aspects
from its meaning and then try to understand what it means, you will find out
that the word is synonymous of 'ability to manage a plan'.
If you try to define the word 'design' you find that has the same meaning.
Design and power concepts are identical. "
Milton Glaser
http://sdz.aiap.it/notizie/10637
Quote #198
" Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into,
and their teachers – like parents – are viewed as beings who alternately guide
and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their
professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people
encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes
learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats. "
Marian Bantjes
on Doyald Young AIGA 2009 Medal
www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-doyaldyoung
Quote #197
" To freely bloom – that is my definition of success. "
Gerry Spence (1929-)
Quote #196
" Design:
The wedding of liberal education to the advancement of the public good.
The ABC of Anthropology:
Applied Anthropology
Archaeological Anthropology
Anthropology of Religion
Biological or Physical Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Development Anthropology
Dental Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
Educational Anthropology
Ethnography
Ethnohistory
Ethnology
Ethnomusicology
Linguistic Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Paleoanthropology
Paleopathology
Political Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Urban Anthropology. "
Liz Coleman
www.ted.com/speakers/liz_coleman.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Coleman
Quote #195
" Seem to have spent all week explaining to clients that
their specifications are inappropriate for achieving what they want.
They disagree. "
Mark Barrat
http://twitter.com/mark_barratt/statuses/2435684134
Quote #194
" A good listener helps us overhear ourselves. "
Yahia Lababidi (1973-)
www.poetsencyclopedia.com/lababidi.shtml
Quote #193
" Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration
or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books,
paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,
bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent.
And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it.
In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said:
“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to. "
Jim Jarmusch (1953-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jarmusch
Quote #192
" No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account
not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. "
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Quote #191
" Design creates culture.
Culture shapes values.
Values determine the future.
Design is therefore responsible for the world our children will live in".
Robert L. Peters (1954-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Peters
Quote #190
" Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen.
Design is the structural link between the customers and the product.
Content must be brought to the surface. And when a design is completed,
it should seem natural and obvious.
It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last. "
Roger Black
Quote #189
" People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously,
rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle
in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of
reconstituting the conditions of human existence. "
George Orwell (1903-1950)
The Road to Wigan Pier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
www.george-orwell.org/l_quotes.html
Quote #188
" A visualization method is a systematic, rule-based, external,
permanent, and graphic representation that depicts information
in a way that is conducive to acquiring insights, developing
an elaborate understanding, or communicating experiences. "
Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler
www.visual-literacy.org/periodic-table.pdf
Quote #187
" The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse. "
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a.k.a. Osho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho
http://video.google.com/osho/finding
Quote #186
" The best way to give advice to your children is to find out
what they want and then advise them to do it. "
Harry S. Truman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S_Truman
Quote #185
" Following a process is a critical factor in successfully designing
and developing information. By following one, you have, at the least,
a check list of sorts that helps you make sure that you complete every
task and, at the most, a guide to make sure that you address issues
in the most logical sequence.
By following a well-defined process and applying creative design and
development techniques, you can design communication products in the
most effective and efficient manner. "
Saul Carliner
http://saulcarliner.net/process-resources
Quote #184
" Communication in every which way is everything for the leader. "
John Maeda
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000500.html
Quote #183
" If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be ? "
Howard Behar
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591841925
Quote #182
" A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. "
Steven Wright
www.stevenwright.com/a_word/index.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wright
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYffXv7jMYQ
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/steven_wright.html
www.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html
Quote #181
" Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. "
Paola Antonelli
www.designboom.com/eng/interview/antonelli.html
Quote #180
" I have the simplest of tastes. I’m always satisfied with the Best. "
Oscar Wilde
www.parachute.gr/Uploads/Fonts/4878_PRO_sample_01.gif
Quote #179
" By creating digital models and workflows that allow you to visualize,
simulate, and analyze your designs, you can experience your ideas before they are real.
This enables the continual exploration of design alternatives,
allowing early improvements to the way projects and products will look,
perform, and be used. And ultimately, saving time and money, reducing errors,
and increasing sustainability. "
Autodesk Team, “Why Design Matters”
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=10900700&siteID=123112
Quote #178
" Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. "
Albert Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
http://nobelprize.org/physics/1921/einstein
Quote #177
" A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed. "
Henrik Ibsen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
Quote #176
" What a graphic designer tries to do is make sure the typography
is emotionally consistent with the brand. "
Michael Ian Kaye
www.metropolismag.com/html/content_1298/de98boo.htm
Quote #175
" The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life.
The art of today is that which really belongs to us : it is our own reflection.
In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
We say that the present age possesses no art : – who is responsible for this ?
It is indeed a shame that despite all our rhapsodies about the ancients,
we pay so little attention to our own possibilities.
Struggling artists, weary souls lingering in the shadow of cold disdain !
In our self-centered century, what inspiration do we offer them ?
The past may well look with pity at the poverty of our civilisation ;
the future will laugh at the barrenness of our art.
We are destroying the beautiful in life. "
Kakuzo Okakura (1862-1913)
www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tea.htm
http://members.aol.com/willadams/portfolio/typography/thebookoftea.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okakura_Kakuzo
Quote #174
" We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
And know the place for the first time. "
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
‘Little Gidding’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
Quote #173
" The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most
fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy
has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to
know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense!
I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest
works have never concluded. "
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
Quote #172
" If you spot it, you've got it. "
(Empirically studied and proven in some fields of counselling and also Buddhism).
Unknown
Quote #171
" Does it count as a ‘grand truth’ if I have to explain the context?
Surely there are other stories that could assure its status as a universal principle. "
Anne Carroll
www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002XS
Quote #170
" Luck is the residue of design. "
Branch Rickey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Rickey
Quote #169
" Conversation is the engine of knowledge.
It’s the generative activity of civilization.
Of course, I don’t mean only literally talk, I mean the bigger sense
of conversation – human interchange, interaction and commerce. "
Andrew Hinton
Quote #168
" Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational.
‘Communities of Practice’ are groups of people who share a concern (domain)
or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice)
as they interact regularly (community). "
Etienne Wenger (1952-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Wenger
Quote #167
" I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and ‘scandalous’ ways that insects copulate. "
Isabella Rossellini
www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno
Quote #166
" The life of a designer is a life of fight.
Fight against the ugliness.
Just like a doctor fights against disease.
For us, the visual disease is what we have around,
and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. "
Massimo Vignelli
www.inspireux.com/2008/04/09/against-the-ugliness
Quote #165
" Great design is all about details.
With innovative material selection, sensible construction techniques
and modern aestetics one can craft a unique design language that sets
a new standard. "
Roi James
Quote #164
" Art is the most complex, vitalizing and civilizing of human actions.
Thus it is of biological necessity. Art sensitizes man to the best
that is immanent in him through an intensified expression involving
many layers of experience.
Out of them art forms a unified manifestation, like dreams which are
composed of the most diverse source material subconsciously crystallized.
It tries to produce a balance of the social, intellectual and emotional
existence; a synthesis of attitudes and opinions, fears and hopes.
Art has two faces, the biological and the social, the one toward the
individual and the other toward the group. By expressing fundamental
validities and common problems, art can produce a feeling of coherence.
This is its social function which leads to a cultural synthesis as well
as to a continuation of human civilization. Today, lacking the patterning
and refinement of emotional impulses through the arts, uncontrolled,
inarticulate and brutally destructive ways of release have become
commonplace.
Unused energies, subconscious frustrations, create the psychopathic
borderline cases of neurosis. Art as expression of the individual can
be a remedy of sublimation of aggressive impulses.
Art educates the receptive faculties and it revitalises the creative
abilities. In this way art is rehabilitation therapy through which
confidence in one’s creative abilities can be restored. "
László Moholy-Nagy 91895-1946)
Vision in Motion, Chicago 1947, p.28.
http://shao.kelake.org/a/text/the-function-of-art.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Moholy-Nagy
Quote #163
" According to the thinkers of the East, there are five different intoxications:
of beauty, youth and strength;
then the intoxication of wealth;
the third is power, command, the power of ruling;
and there is the fourth intoxication, which is the intoxication of learning, of knowledge.
But all these four intoxications fade away just like stars before the sun
in the presence of the intoxication of music.
The reason is that it touches that deepest part of man’s being.
Music reaches farther than any other impression from the external world can reach.
And the beauty of music is that it is both the source of creation and the means
of absorbing it.
In other words, by music was the world created, and by music it is withdrawn again
into the source which has created it. "
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927)
Founder of the Sufi Order in the West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayat_Khan
www.om-guru.com/html/saints/khan.html
http://wahiduddin.net/hik/hik_origins.htm
Quote #162
" We live in an over-served world driven by unrealistic expectations,
and the toughest challenge in this environment is to set yourself apart...
which is the purpose of branding. By building strong brands with real value,
you build strong bottom lines. "
Charlie Hughes
http://brandrules.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14
Quote #161
" The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice
has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make
small mistakes.
The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover
his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential
knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth,
relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity. "
Christopher Alexander
http://shao.kelake.org/text/the-difference.php
www.37signals.com/the-difference-between-a-fifty-year-old-carpenter-and-a-novice
Quote #160
" Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives.
So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures,
that’s when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas. "
Frans Johansson
http://themedicieffect.typepad.com
Quote #159
" Transforming ourselves and transforming the world – that’s
really a false duality. Insofar as we’re able to let go of
ourselves and let something else flow through us, I think we
inevitably become more engaged with the world.
To be less self-preoccupied is to realise our non-duality with
the world – we’re not in the world, we’re one manifestation of
the world. We are what the world is doing right here and now.
The other thing Buddhism has to offer here is the emphasis on
emptiness – particularly the implication of goallessness.
If we’re working towards social transformation, inevitably
we’re working towards particular goals.
But realising the emptiness of our activities leads to a focus
on process rather than conclusion. "
David Loy
www.dharmalife.com/issue21/globalchange.html
Quote #158
" You cannot not communicate. "
Paul Watzlawik
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watzlawick
Quote #157
" It has become a cliché to announce that ‘we live in a remix culture’...
What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation,
and pastiche no longer needs any special name.
Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production. "
Lev Manovich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Manovich
Quote #156
" The next decade will produce a revolution in the use of archived,
simulation, and near real-time data to guide future decisions and
research directions."
David Patterson
Manager of EOL online reference
(for 1.9 million known plant and animal species).
Quote #155
" Design is one of the professions that bridges the analytical way
of doing things with the synthetical way of doing things.
If you consider analysis to be breaking a thing down into finite
elements, and looking at relationhips inside it and making sense out
of it, you can say that synthesis is about the interrelationships
and the combinations of things. I think that designers have this
unusual intuition for what could be meaningful in this analytical
[information]. It’s less rational, and more emotional in its approach. "
Vinay Venkatraman
http://ciid.dk/about/co-founders/staff-vinay
http://mattbalara.com/2008/07/interview-with-vinay-venkatraman
Quote #154
" In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or
purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action. "
Howard Rheingold
http://mattbalara.com/2008/07/interview-with-howard-rheingold
www.socialtext.net/digitaljournalism
Quote #153
" They must find it difficult...
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
Rather than truth as the authority. "
Gerald Massey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey
www.theosophical.ca/AncientEgyptIntroduction.htm
Quote #152
" Symbols are oracular forms–mysterious patterns
creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world. "
Manly P. Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Palmer_Hall
Quote #151
" Man has never desired what he has not first imagined. "
Unknown
Quote #150
" Humor is all about timing. "
Steven Heller
www.core77.com/blog/broadcasts/steven-heller-offsite-nyc
www.dexigner.com/design_events/school-of-visual-arts-to-honor-steven-heller
Quote #149
" No furniture so charming as books. "
Rev Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith
Quote #148
World Needs New
The world should be better.
There are huge opportunities to make new things.
To rethink energy, transport, healthcare, government.
We think there’s not enough around that’s new.
And business growth, particularly in hard times, means doing new things.
The best way out of a recession is to stimulate new demand.
New Needs Brand
Innovation is unpredictable, often wasteful, full of dead ends.
But there’s a good way to inspire it, focus it, and make it do-able.
Start with your brand. Start with what you stand for,
and what you’re specially good at. This is brand-led innovation.
It’s how the greatest innovators – Google, Prada, Safaricom, Tata –
instinctively do it.
And in a world where sceptical consumers believe reality not image,
creating new reality is the only way to keep your brand alive.
Brand inspires new, and new delivers brand.
Wolff Olins,
Brand Consultancy
Quote #147
" Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself;
when it succeeds, it’s invisible. "
John D. Berry
www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17292
Quote #146
" An old essay by John Updike begins, ‘We live in an era of
gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.’
That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder.
It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike
to his conclusion ?
The answer is in his second sentence : ‘Consider the beer can.’
To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention
of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer.
‘Pop-top’ and ‘beer’ are at the bottom of the ladder, ‘aesthetic
experience’ at the top. "
John Updike
On the Ladder of Abstraction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike
www.bad-seed.org/dwelling/2005/12/writing-tool-no.13
Quote #145
" I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar. "
Eugene Ormandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Ormandy
Quote #144
" If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that makes it good or bad. "
Miles Davis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis
Quote #143
" Moulding clay into a vessel,
we find the utility in its hollowness;
Cutting doors and windows for a house,
we find the utility in its empty space.
Therefore the being of things is profitable,
the non-being of things is serviceable. "
Tao
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao
Quote #142
" People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. "
" Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar. "
1982
Alan Kay (1940-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
www.viewpointsresearch.org/alan-kay-bio.pdf
Quote #141
" No one has ever created a design culture by importing design.
The story of a design city is the story of when and how it embraces
its own ideas and works through them to generate local cultural capital. "
Leon van Schaik
www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/lvschaik.php
Quote #140
" To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics
that deals with positive numbers only. "
" Dare rilievo soltanto al bello mi fa pensare ad una matematica
che si occupa solo di numeri positivi. "
Diaries 1989-1918
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/malek/klee
Quote #139
" It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself
which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. "
Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Temple_Bell
Quote #138
" The good thing about bad taste is that you don`t know you have it. "
Sam Becker
Quote #137
" This is more pertinent in graphic design than in the industrial
or architectural fields, because graphic design is more open to
aesthetic than to functional preferences. "
Paul Rand (1914-1996)
The Politics of Design
www.paul-rand.com/thoughts_politics.shtml
Quote #136
" I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious. "
Albert Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
http://nobelprize.org/physics/1921/einstein
Quote #135
" An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere.
The pessimist sees only the red light.
But the truly wise person is color blind. "
Albert Schweitzer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer
http://nobelprize.org/peace/1952/schweitzer
Quote #134
" Collaboration is a combined effort resulting in the deepening
of relationships and shared knowledge. "
Mousharaka, Icograda Design Week in Qatar 2009
Quote #133
" What to do makes a difference,
and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. "
Jane Goodall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/jane_goodall.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJDL1eSbH7E
Quote #132
" Good graphic design solutions to communication problems
can improve the flow of information in society and, therefore,
substantially and positively affect education, social well-being
and the daily enjoyment of life. In addition, good graphic design
solutions can also have a positive economic impact. "
Jorge Frascara
http://designmichaelsurtees.blog/2005/06/importance-of-design
Quote #131
Quotes on Design, http://quotesondesign.com
Quote #130
" The design is an expression of the purpose.
I may (if it is good design) later be judged as art. "
Charles Eames
http://typophile.com/node/53846
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/charles-eames.pdf
Quote #129
" It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs
were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists
apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula
is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over.
In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product
than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to
design for more than elegance. "
Ralph Caplan (1925-)
http://sva.edu/caplan-theoretical.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Caplan
www.core77.com/crackingthewhip
Quote #128
" There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW!
Wow is the one to aim for. "
Milton Glaser (1929-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser
www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser
Quote #127
I see graphic design as the organization of information
that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent
and pragmatically understandable.
Massimo Vignelli
www.designboom.com/interview/vignelli
Quote #126
" We need to aim at essential things, to remove every redundant
effects, every useless flowering, to elaborate a concept on mathematical
bases, on fundamental ideas, on elementary structures; we strongly need
to avoid waste and excess. "
A.G. Fronzoni (1923-2002)
http://cappellini.it/a.g.-fronzoni
Quote #125
" An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding. "
Germano Facetti (1926-2006)
http://typophile.com/node/19230
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germano_Facetti
Quote #124
" There can be no knowledge without emotion.
We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. "
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett
Retrived from: “Emotion” by R. De Sousa
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion
Quote #123
" Advertisements saturate our social lives. We participate, daily,
in deciphering advertising images and messages. Our ability to recognize
and decipher the advertising images that confront us depends on our
photographic literacy and our familiarity with the social logic of
advertising and consumerism.
Yet, because ads are so pervasive and our reading of them so routine,
we tend to take for granted the deep social assumptions embedded in
advertisements. There is a great deal more at stake in reading ads than
simply wondering whether or not to buy.
Advertisements have sociocultural consequences and repercussions that
go beyond the corporate bottom line, even though it is the bottom line
which motivates and shapes the ads.
This critical reading of ads seeks to excavate the social assumptions
that are conventionally made (and glossed over) in the split second that
it takes us to decipher an ad and move on to the next.
Reading ads in terms of the social knowledge necessary to their interpretation
enables us to isolate and detail the ideological codes that animate the ads.
Suspending the taken-for-granted attitude that accompanies the reading
process can turn the reading of ads from depoliticized diversion into
a political act. "
Robert Goldman
Reading Ads Socially, 1992, Routledge, New York
www.amazon.com/goldman/robert/reading-art-socially
Quote #122
" Tough times do not last but tough people do. "
Deiter Uchdorf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_F._Uchtdorf
Quote #121
" Design is an expression of the purpose, and it may (if it is good enough)
later be judged as art; design depends largely on constraints and it is a method
of action (there are always constraints and these usually include ethic). "
Charles Eames (1907-1978)
www.as8.it/edu/charles-eames_on_design.pdf
www.biographybase.com/biography/Eames_Charles.html
Quote #120
" Design is a conversation with a situation. "
Mario Gagliardi
http://www.allevio.com/future-past.pdf
Quote #119
" Inner beauty is for amateurs. "
Anne Taintor (1953-)
Quote #118
" The intellect has little to do with the road to discovery.
There happens a conscience leap, call it intuition or as you like,
and the solution arrives, and you don't know how or why. "
Albert Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
www.facebook.com/feed/intuition
Quote #117
" A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit,
and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce
great poetry -- strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have
passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance
along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect.
Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art. "
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
in "Erostratus: The Search For Immortality"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
www.plcs.umassd.edu/texts/sabine.doc
Quote #116
" It’s often the way you think about people that often determines their behaviors ; you
have to change the way that people see themselves before they can change their behaviors.
You must be prepared to work on your dreams, just in case they do come true. "
Bill Strickland
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/209
Quote #115
" Occasionally I am reminded of the paradox that we each have a limited existence
in the limitless framework of time. Speed is over-valued by society, we should value
inactivity and slowness as a productive agent of observation and quality. "
John Caserta
www.johncaserta.com/yale/foam-cutter
Quote #114
" There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time.
Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time.
Time is the most important thing that has been given to man. "
Shirin Ebadi (1947-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Ebadi
Quote #113
" Time is the scarcest of all resources. Time is the only non-renewable resource. "
George Gilder (1939-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilder
Quote #112
" Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same
as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really.
It’s the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit
them together, and when they don’t fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and
make them all fit. "
Gerry Sussman
Quote #111
" For me, it is maybe the process of simply thinking about something in a creative sense...
that gets me excited. Does it have to result in something ? Yes. That seems odd really.
Because if all I cared about being creative was just to do something creative, then I
wouldn't need to get to a finished result. No. Getting to some endpoint seems to be the
real enjoyment. It's not for others to recognize the fruits of your work ; it's for yourself.
The desire is to complete a thought. So then... you can go on and find a new one to torment
yourself with. The intellectual torment... is... fun ? Hmmmm. Difficult to say.
Perhaps it is a kind of acquired taste for an odd pleasure. "
" So it dawned upon me how important it is to be a creative.
Because it means you have within you infinite capacity to experiment.
You are unafraid to go somewhere new because you are creating a new thought process about
your own creativity. You know that if you stop and no longer challenge yourself, you cease
to be creative. You become still, silent, and the bow no longer connect with the strings
and music is not made. And you do not exist. You show you do not have the courage to exist.
Creativity is courage. The world needs more fearless people that can influence all disciplines
to challenge their very existence. Creativity is reflection aimed not at yourself, but at the
world around you. "
John Maeda
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000497.html
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000494.html
Quote #110
" When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual
approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do,
that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done,
or they hate that something hasn’t been done. And I realized that informed
criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced
so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law—bad money drives
the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out
of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything. "
Alan Kay
http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/alankay.wmv
Quote #109
" Visual organization is the deliberate prioritization of meaning within a visual design.
It’s the process of applying the principles behind perception - how we make sense
of what we see - to illuminate relationships between content and actions. "
Luke Wroblewski
www.webguild.org/2007/05/wrobleski
Quote #108
" It wasn’t an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. "
Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938-)
www.designboom.com/interview/giugiaro
Quote #107
" The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal
the artist is art`s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another
manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as
the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly
meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are
the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful
things mean only beauty. "
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
Quote #106
" Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge.
I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us.
Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination. "
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (1966-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Abrams
Quote #105
" The original idea makes design distinctive, function makes it work and quality adds value. "
Serge Zuev
Quote #104
" Trust is the personal believe in correctness of something.
It is the deep conviction of thruth and rightness, and can not be enforced.
If you gain someone’s trust, you have established an interpersonal relationship,
based on communication, shared values and experiences.
Trust always depends on mutuality. "
Benjamin Stephan & Lutz Vogel
Quote #103
" Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective,
thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study. "
Leonard Simon Nimoy (1931-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy
Quote #102
" I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing,
like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire. "
James Turrell (1943-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Turrell
Quote #101
" Design is intelligence made visible. "
Don Newgren
http://design.yorku.ca/faculty
Quote #100
" Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools,
masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form. "
John Maeda
Quote #099
" What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics,
a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer)
when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have.
Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different
skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you
to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin. "
Murray Gell-Mann (1929-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann
Quote #098
" Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders. "
Patrick Awuah
Quote #097
" When form predominates, meaning is blunted. But when content predominates, interest lags.
Form & Content. Without aesthetics, you can`t find the truth, to do things with quality.
I think this is in a true sense what aesthetics means.
Simplicity is not the goal.
It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. "
Paul Rand (1914-1996)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3XPeGL907E
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
www.logodesignlove.com/all-about-paul-rand
Quote #096
" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world.
That`s what poetry does. "
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg
Quote #095
" It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. "
Aesop (595BC-546BC ca.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop
Quote #094
" Evolution is cleverer than you are. "
Francis Crick (1916-2004)
Quote #093
" It is a little embarrassing that, after 45 years of research and study,
the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. "
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley
www.philosophersnet.com/quotations/huxley
Quote #092
" We think about the world in all ways we experience it ;
we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically,
we think in abstract term, we think in movement.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. "
Sir Ken Robinson
Quote #091
" 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers. "
Alonzo Mosley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU
Quote #090
" Stay hungry, stay foolish. "
Steve Paul Jobs (1955-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3j81k_steve-jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Quote #089
" Pattern : categories are cultural, locales mix up, structure mostly translates,
global standards have local exceptions. "
Peter Van Dijck (1968-)
Quote #088
" Solo la possibilità di realizzare un sogno rende la vita degna di essere vissuta. "
" Erst die Möglichkeit, einen Traum zu verwirklichen, macht unser Leben lebenswert. "
" Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living. "
Paolo Coelho (1947-)
Quote #087
" It is no secret that the real world in which the designer functions
is not the world of art, but the world of buying and selling. "
Paul Rand (1914-1996)
www.dexodesign.com/2007/08/politics-of-design
Quote #086
" Memory is what you remember, imagine what you remember,
convince yourself you remember, or pretend to remember. "
" La memoria è quello che ricordi, immaginare quello che ricordi,
convincere te stesso di ricordare, o pretendere di ricordare. "
Harold Pinter (1930-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter
Quote #085
" Grids do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the content.
We never start with a grid. We start with an idea which is then translated
into a form, a structure. "
Linda van Deursen
Quote #084
" The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful!
We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person
who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if
it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live,
you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much
as you can you must either live in the most photographable way
possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.
The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness. "
Italo Calvino, 1923-1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino
Quote #083
" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
www.atlantismagazine.com/Butterfly-Garden.pdf
www.schoolofwisdom.com/tagore-einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
Quote #082
" We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time /
Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come. "
Mike Ness, Social Distorsion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Distortion
Quote #081
" You don`t need eyes to see, you need vision. "
Anonymous
Quote #080
" To be or not to be. " " To be is to do. " " Do be do be do… "
Shakespeare Sartre Sinatra
Quote #079
" If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is
a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his
or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self,
then that is where I aspire to live every day. "
Rudy Gutierrez (1965-)
http://stage.societyillustrators.org
Quote #078
" The quality of talent lies in its limitations, not in its possibilities.
It means dealing with physical limitations and reality ; the professional
designer often has to be inventive and improvise to solve a problem within
a limited time frame. He needs to be practical and efficient. He needs to
know what to look for and, more important, when to stop. "
Max Kisman (1953-)
Quote #077
" Design brings content into focus ;
design makes function visible. "
Jennifer Moria
Quote #076
" Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works. "
Steve Jobs (1955-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Quote #075
" We need to aim at essential things, to remove every redundant effects,
every useless flowering, to elaborate a concept on mathematical bases,
on fundamental ideas, on elementary structures;
we strongly need to avoid waste and excess. "
A.G. Fronzoni
Quote #074
" You can`t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. "
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
Quote #073
" If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is : infinite. "
William Blake (1757-1827)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
Quote #072
" Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. "
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
www.answers.com/Amos-Bronson-Alcott
Quote #071
" Design is thinking made visual. "
Soul Bass (1920-1996)
www.designmuseum.org/design/bass
Quote #070
" An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding. "
Germano Facetti
(May 5, 1928 - April 8, 2006)
www.designmuseum.org/design/facetti
www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/facetti
Quote #069
" Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language.
Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have
not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role,
or that of an add on. "
John A. Hiigli
www.jardingalerie.org & www.johnahiigli.com
Quote #068
" Design is the intermediary between information and understanding ".
Richard Grefé
Executive Director, American Institute of Graphic Arts
Quote #067
" [Leonardo Da Vinci] combined art and science and aesthetics
and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again ".
Ben Shneiderman
www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/shneiderman
Quote #066
" The single most important observation is that the objective
of communication is not the transimission, but the reception.
The whole preparation, presentation and content of a speech must
therefore be geared not to the speaker but to the audience.
The presentation of a perfect project plan is a failure if the
audience do not understand or are not persuaded of its merits.
A customers` tour is a waste of time if they leave without realising
the full worth of your product. The objective of communication is
to make your message understood and remembered. "
Dr. Gerard M. Blair
Hardware Design Engineer, Hewlett-Packard
www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art1
Quote #065
" I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not
to suit any body but myself. If people don`t like my opinions,
it makes little difference as I don`t solicit their opinions
or votes. "
William T. Sherman (1820-1891)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman
Quote #064
" It is called the Fibonacci series after Leonardo of Pisa
or (Filius Bonacci), alias Leonardo Fibonacci, born in 1175,
whose great book 'The Liber Abaci' (1202), on Arithmetic,
was a standard work for 200 years and is still considered
the best book written on Arithmetic. "
http://www.goldenmeangauge.co.uk/fibonacci.htm
Quote #063
" I don`t think this has been fully understood by the United States...
If you look at India, China and Russia, they all have strong education
heritages. Even if you discount 90 percent of the people there as
uneducated farmers, you still end up with about 300 million people
who are educated. That`s bigger than the U.S. work force. "
Craig Barrett
www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/barrett.htm
Quote #062
" In preparing for battle I have always found that plans
are useless, but planning is indispensable. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
Quote #061
" I am passionate about words and the rhythm that they create,
giving expanded meaning to the mundane or enhancing the brilliant,
no matter what form they are delivered. When all is said and done,
and my life is finished, there will be only one thing that remains ;
the memories that I have left with those that have known me and my
words, whether written or spoken will be a reflection of the life
I have lived. "
Carla Iacovetti
www.forwardpress.co.uk/featured_poets_44
Quote #060
" When I`m working on a problem, I never think about beauty.
I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. "
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
Quote #059
" [Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs,
which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding. "
Jacques Bertin (1925-)
www.infovis.net/interview_with_Jacques_Bertin
Quote #058
" Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Quote #057
" If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better.
You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system.
I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little
silence. "
Bruno Monguzzi
www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex42_mon/ex42_mon.htm
Quote #056
" For one thing, I don`t teach graphic design ; I teach people
to find their own strengths. Second, I don`t hold back anything
for myself. I share everything I know. I get back much more
than I receive. "
Morteza Momayez (1936-2005)
Quote #055
" Object-oriented programming is the leading software development
technique today -- but the logic of object-oriented programming
was developed by philosophers like Plato, Aristotle and Porphyry.
If you can master the concepts, you can master the details.
Many philosophers are surprised to discover that high-tech jobs
are often philosophically rewarding as well as financially rewarding.
If you love metaphysics, for instance, you've great future as a
software designer : a large software system is just an enormous
conceptual structure, not unlike a great metaphysical system. "
Eric Steinhart, 1998, WPUNJ Philosophy Department
www.wpunj.edu/cohss/philosophy/PAYOFF.HTM
Quote #054
" Because his sister`s marrying Toad
Because she needs a new commode (remember, she`s marrying Toad)
Because he`d written her an ode ("Oh, sister mine, you`re marrying Toad")
Because his feelings overflowed ("My baby sister`s marrying Toad")
Because he feels he must meet Toad ("What if the Toad turns out a fraud?")
That`s why the chicken crossed the road. "
Vladimir Radunsky
http://philosophy.eserver.org/chicken.txt
Quote #053
" Good design always brings rewards, whether you measure them
in terms of a better image for your organization, increased sales,
or simply personal satisfaction for the person responsible.
Bad design, though, brings greater penalties for some kinds of
documents than others. Your organization`s efficiency can be
seriously affected by badly designed forms, price lists, catalogues,
or other functional documents.
So the time it takes to design things well is time well spent. "
Robert Waller
Quote #052
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Unicode (1991-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
Quote #051
" In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach
to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means
used by the artist. It defines the basic properties and laws
governing the arts and suggests objective criteria for art
criticism. "
Jacques Bertin (1967-1984)
Quote #050
" Never mistake motion for action. "
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
www.hemingwaysociety.org/virthem.htm
Quote #049
" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (3bc-65)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger
Quote #048
" Shibumi ("Elegance") summons the image of something astringent
in sensation, while it hints at that which is unforced or dignified.
A shibumi flower arrangement brings into being coolness during
a scorching summertime and sunshine on a frigid day. That which
is shibumi is quiet in refinement, noble and fulfilling in a manner
that is not shaped exclusively by analytical thought. It is the
pathos of 'not too much,' the use of creative restraint in the
supreme sense. "
Michi, Journal of Japanese Cultural Arts
www.michionline.org/resources/Glossary
Quote #047
" The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. "
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari Computers (1943-)
http://www.icwhen.com/book/the_1970s/1972.shtml
Quote #046
" No, Watson, this was not done by accident - but by design. "
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1854-1957)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
Quote #045
" Intellectuals solve problems ; geniuses prevent them. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Quote #044
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "
Alan Kay (1940-)
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
Quote #043
" There are moments in our lives,
there are moments in a day,
when we seem to see beyond the usual.
Such are the moments of our greatest happiness.
Such are the moments of our greates wisdom.
If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign.
It was in this hope that the arts were invented.
Sign-posts on the way to what may be.
Sign-posts toward greater knowledge. "
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henri
Quote #042
" Cogito, Ergo Sum. "
René Descartes (1596-1650)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum
Translated in the past as "I think, therefore I am", but more
recently and accurately "I am thinking, therefore I exist",
is possibly the single best-known philosophical statement.
Kevin Pease ambigram - also translated for the FB toilet.
Quote #041
" A room without books is a body without a soul. "
Cicero (106-43 BC)
Quote #040
" No one realized that the book and the labyrinth
were one and the same...
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces,
kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools,
stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers
that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. "
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
www.libyrinth.com/borges
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
Quote #039
" Whose shape was quarreled over for months :
should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table
or a square one ?
Jenny Holzer (1950-)
http://wetheblog.org/Holzer.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer
Quote #038
" In dreams begins responsibility. "
William Butler Yeats (1865-39)
www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/yeats.htm
Quote #037
" I h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d
and I do not want what I haven`t got.
I have learned this from my mother ;
see how happy she has made me.
I will take this road much further
though I know not where it takes me. "
Sinead O'Connor (1966-)
www.postmodern.com/~mcb/jitr/archives/misc/idnwwihg.lyrics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinéad_O'Connor
Quote #036
" The words or language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem
to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities
which serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or les
clear images which can be 'voluntarily' reproduced or combined...
The above mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some
muscular type. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Quote #035
" Always tell only the truth, and all the truth,
and do so promptly - right now. "
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
Quote #034
" I still believe in Paradise,
and now at least I know it not some place you can look for,
because it`s not where you go,
it`s how you feel for a moment in your life.
If you find that moment - it lasts forever.
Trust me, it's Paradise.
Keep your mind open and suck any experience. "
from "Beached" by Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti (1937-)
http://www.loopz.co.uk/discog/ep/beached.html
Quote #033
" Form is emptiness
and the very emptiness is form ;
Emptiness does not differ from form,
form does not differ from emptiness,
whatever is emptiness,
that is form.
the same is true of feelings,
perception, impulses,
and consciousness ! "
from The Heart of Sutra, Courtesy of Sami Kortemäki
http://www.as8.it/type/sariputra.png
Recited in original laguage "Mahahannyaharamita Sutra"
Quote #032
" When we observes users in their natural environments, they
behave in natural ways that they may not when sitting in a Lab. "
Colin Hynes (1965-)
Quote #031
" A map of the world which doesn`t include Utopia isn`t even worth glancing at. "
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
Quote #030
" You paint the way you have to in order to give. That`s life itself,
and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but
it has noting to do with knowing, it has to do with giving. "
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
www.beatmuseum.org/kline/franzkline.html
Quote #029
La bellezza è un linguaggio.
I krása umímluvit.
La belleza es un lenguaje.
Schönheit ist eine Sprache.
Beauty is a language.
La beauté est un language.
Piekno jest mowa.
A beleza é uma linguagem.
Güzellik bir dildir.
Quote #028
" The water you touch in the rivers
it is the last of what`s gone, and the first of what is coming :
- so the moment of present is. "
Leonardo da Vinci (1690-1730)
‘Sea Life’ poster [700 Kb]
Quote #027
" Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement,
in the thrill of creative effort. "
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Quote #026
" Everything we see hides another thing ;
we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. "
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Quote #025
" The art of art,
the glory of expression
and the sunshine of the light of letters,
is simplicity. "
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
www.whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts
Quote #024
" Computers are worthless. They can only give you answers. "
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
www.999inks.co.uk/pablo-picasso
Quote #023
" I have solved what color is, however ;
I still have no idea about what line is. "
Leonardo da Vinci (1690-1730)
www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/leonardo_narrowband.htm
‘Sea Life’ poster [700 Kb]
Quote #022
" If you jump, you best jump far. "
Tori Amos (1963-)
from 'Leather', Little Earthquakes.
Quote #021
" Of the making of books, there is no end. "
The Prophet Muhammad (569-632)
www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/prophet
Quote #020
" Eighty percent of success is showing up. "
Woody Allen (1935-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen
Quote #019
Non c'è due senza tre (Italian)
There is not two without three (English)
Üçsüz iki olmaz (Turkish)
No hay dos sin tres (Spanish)
Es gibt nicht zwei ohne drei (German)
Il n'y a pas deux sans trois (French)
Er is niet twee zonder drie (Dutch)
Não há duas sem três (Portuguese)
Det er ikke to uten tre (Norwegian)
Gde dva tam i tri (Russian)
Ei ole kahte ilma kolmeta (Estonian)
Nie ma dwoch bez trzech (Polish)
Sann ga nakereba ni ha soko ni nai (Japanese)
Ei kahta ilman kolmatta (Finnish)
Där är ikke två ingen tredje (Swedish)
Ma fisc thnin duna thlata (Arab)
" Eer bir i iki defa yaplrsa, üçüncüsü de gelir. "
Quote #018
" Graphic design is the paradise of individuality,
eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. "
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Quote #017
" You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Quote #016
" Sharing knowledge is better than having it. "
Peter J. Bogaards
Quote #015
" A man who works with his hands is a laborer ;
a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman ;
but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart
is an artist. "
Louis Nizer (1902-1994)
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BNIZ.HTM
Quote #014
" For years, I`ve recommended to students that they study
Communication, that it is one of the most important skills
they can acquire : to learn how to ask a client about their
business, how to listen to the replies and then refine the
questions, how to enlighten a client about what the client
needs to know about what we do. That last part is almost
like educating kids about where babies come from...
You only have to give the answer that makes sense at the
level of understanding of the person asking the question. "
Miriam MacPhail
(Professional Member, Graphic Designers of Canada)
www.camosun.bc.ca/schools/artsci/acp/faculty.php
Quote #013
" Creativity is an ode to life.
It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. "
Wynn Bullock (1902-1975)
www.laurencemillergallery.com/bullockexhibition.htm
Quote #012
" Silence is golden. "
" Yüksek sesle konuşmayınız. "
www.as8.it/quotes/quote_n.12.gif
Quote #011
" The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new
and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words
and pictures into new relationships. "
Leo Burnett (1891-1971)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Burnett
Quote #010
" To design is to plain and organize, to order, to relate
and to control. In short it embraces all means opposing
disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need
and qualifies man's thinking and doing. "
Josef Albers, (1888-1976)
www.cs.umb.edu/~alilley/baualbers.html
www.p22.com/products/albers.html
Quote #009
" There are moments in our lives,
there are moments in a day, when
we seem to see beyond the usual.
Such are the moments of our greatest
happiness. Such are the moments
of our greates wisdom. If one could
but recall his vision by some sort of
sign. It was in this hope that the
arts were invented. Sign-posts on
the way to what may be. Sign-posts
toward greater knowledge. "
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/henri_robert.html
Quote #008
" The soul is often in the surface,
and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated. "
Italo Calvino
Quote #007
A book has to dig through the wounds,
more, it has cause a new one,
a book it has to be dangerous.
Emile Cioran (1911-1995)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran
Quote #006
" If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity
and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear. "
Jef Raskin
Quote #005
" As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay
between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our
rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake
that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the
quality of form with the specific forms themselves. "
Alvin Lustig
www.alvinlustig.org/aa_intro.asp
Quote #004
" The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality,
its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance,
it threatens infinity. "
Susan Stewart
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/english/new_web/bios/stewart.htm
Quote #003
" I see graphic design as the organization of information
that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent
and pragmatically understandable.
I like it to be usually powerful, intellectual elegant,
and above all timeless. "
Massimo Vignelli (1931-)
Quote #002
" Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design.
In addition to being more logical,
asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance
is far more optically effective than symmetry. "
Jan Tschichold (1902-1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tschichold
www.linotype.com/7-609-7/jantschichold.html
Quote #001
" For the first time in history it is now possible to take care
of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point
where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become
enduringly successful. "
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
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