Funny Graphic Design Quotes

You have to be interested in culture to design for it. ~ Lorraine Wild

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. ~ Piet Zwart

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom. ~ Paula Rego

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ~ Zig Ziglar

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. ~ Shepard Fairey

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

Software developers come mainly from engineering and don't see how similar their industry has become to the one that produces magazines, newspapers, books, TV shows, and movies. Most software developers haven't yet learned to develop and follow strict standards for layout and graphic design and to pay as much attention to detail as traditional publishers and media studios do. As a result, graphic design and layout bloopers often get a "Who cares? It looks OK to me!" reaction from developers. ~ Jeff Johnson

We've all been in positions where we felt out of place or not accepted for whatever reason. For me, that's been my life. I've always been that person that stood out. And what makes you an outcast is what makes you unique, and you should harness that. Being a black sheep gives you creative license to do sh*t differently. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

I've died before. It was boring, so I stood up. ~ Warren Ellis

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~ Howard Aiken

I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring. ~ Brian Froud

She'd been lax in her responsibilities as the building owner because her tenants were her friends. Emmylou rented out the left half of the bottom floor space for her massage studio. Chaz rented the tiny center section for his various artistic enterprises. Amery's graphic design business was on the right bottom half and she lived in the loft that spanned the length of the two-story building. ~ Lorelei James

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. ~ Paola Antonelli

For after all, a poster does more than simply
supply information on the goods it advertises;
it also reveals a society's state of mind ~ Armin Hofmann

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse. ~ Rajneesh

You cannot not communicate. ~ Paul Watzlawick

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt ~ Dave Sim

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human. ~ John Maeda

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. ~ Wynn Bullock

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. ~ John Van Hamersveld

And graphic design elements and alterations are property of Bookbyte Digital and may be used as long as credit ~ Lewis Carroll

Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses.
The man-made world means exactly that. There isn't an inch of it that doesn't have to be dealt with, figured out, executed. And it's waiting for you to decide what it's going to look like. ~ Chip Kidd

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study. ~ Leonard Nimoy

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world. ~ Manly Hall

Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity. ~ Maggie Macnab

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. ~ Sophia Bush

Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders. ~ Patrick Awuah, Jr.

In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man's life through not one, but one hundred different books - and book jackets ... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript. ~ Jessica Helfand

The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design. ~ Jake Barton

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design. ~ Stefan Sagmeister

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe. ~ Ellen Lupton

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch. ~ Michael Schwab

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. ~ El Lissitzky

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' ~ Martin Filler

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. ~ Giorgetto Giugiaro

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. ~ Ellen Lupton

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. ~ Biz Stone

Inner beauty is for amateurs. ~ Anne Taintor

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. ~ William Bell

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, is the buying and selling of product or service over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on such technologies as electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. ~ Webxtechnology

Never mistake legibility for communication. ~ David Carson

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer. ~ Vaughan Oliver

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