Design Quotes
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- dfd0
"The word "cool" has replaced the word "content." If you have enough attitude in your work, if it's cool enough, then it doesn't matter that there's no content. The best example of this is DAVID CARSON. It's cool, and so it doesn't need to say anything. And I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what design is. Because it's just a language. It's just a means of communicating. It's a medium. It's not a message. It doesn't have any message in it unless somebody comes along and puts a message in it. Just because you make something cool doesn't mean that it is something. If nothing is cool, then it's nothing. And that's why this sort of work is disappointing for me."
tibor kalman
- rabattski0
"OMG! WTF? BBQ!" - that would be me.
- dfd0
that's right, i caps DAVID CARSON in that one.
people get over him please.
- t_rock0
talent borrows genius steals, we make it look cool as f**k
- uncle_helv0
I love this quote about Helvetica...
Helvetica is like a good screwdriver; a reliable, efficient, easy-to-use-tool. But put in the wrong hands and it's potentially leathal.
Tom Geismar
- caseyc0
"We can make you a web site in half the time from what you tell us is when you need it done!"
- Nac0
"DOH!!"
-Homer J. Simpson (after getting ridiculous changes from a client during his short stint as a graphic designer)
- radar0
dfd, get over him?
I am not even a big fan of Carson's, but that quote is something he said at a lecture I attended and it has stuck with me.
- vburo0
class
" "There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter…
blackspade
(Apr 7 05, 21:10)I could not agree more.
spot fucking on.
- gruntt0
70!
sorry, that cracks me up.
- sauerbraten0
"Innovation is the enemy of trendiness, pretense and timidity."
-Paul Rand
- dfd0
I don't hate the guy, all I'm saying is that there are way more innovative and brilliant designers out there that would do better for the design world if they had the admiration carson has.
- Duane0
“Everyone is a lot of people to design for.”
-Joshua Rose“It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”
-Jonathon Ive“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”
-Alfred North Whitehead“Dare to be naive.”
-Buckminster Fuller“The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.”
-Tibor Kalman“Designers solve problems for clients. Artists solve problems for humanity. The latter is the greatest problem.”
-John Maeda
- Solid0
Is Carson really [still] that admired?
- ********0
Ward, come upstairs and talk to The Beaver.
-- June (Mrs. Frisky) Cleaver
- ********0
My work is done, why wait?
-- Suicide note of Kodak founder George Eastman
- ********0
ouch.
- vburo0
*yawn
- save.
- ********0
"Now that's shit hot"
- God on the 7th day when he took a step back and looked at all he created.
- k770
"If you've got the experience, you'll probably use it. This is lazy. Experience is the opposite of being creative." © paul arden
"there is no solution, because there is no problem" © marcel duchamp