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I think advertising should be like poison gas. It should grip you by the throat, it should bowl you over, it should knock you on your ass.
Fonts are like cologne, a bad choice speaks louder than a good one.
Good design goes to heaven. Bad design goes everywhere!
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.
The distance between insanity and genius is only measured by success.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
Good design is good business.
Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks.
Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.
The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness.
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Practice safe design, use a concept.
Math is easy, design is hard.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I have a brain and some hands and every once in a while it feels like they’re working together. Those are the best moments.
People ignore design that ignores people.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart & intuition.
It's not the consumers job to know what they want.
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
The header image of the Brooklyn Bridge is by Irving Underhill taken in 1913. Additional photo manipulation provided by Brooklyn Art & Design.
