20th-century Graphic Designer Quotes

Douglas Coupland

Fortunato Depero

Paul Rand

Trudi Canavan

Chip Kidd

Bruce Mau

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

Douglas Coupland

In themselves, experiments are not art. Infinite amounts of energy are wasted because everybody feels he has to make his own start, his own beginning, instead of getting to know what has already been done. It is doubtful that anyone who doesn't want to...

What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them.... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.

I do graphics commercially for a living, but when I get affected by things, when something happens in the world, I usually communicate online with my drawings.

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

If a painter once devoted himself to dynamism and now abandons it, denies it and even criticizes it, it is his own business. This does not mean, however that futurism has had his day. It is always worthy of interest and many artists still work in its ranks with unchanged passion. Dynamism is in life and in nature itself.

Fortunato Depero

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.

The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.

Josef Müller-Brockmann

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.