A better educated design client will value your creative services higher. Educate your clients about what design is, what goes into it, and why design matters!
These tidbits of wisdom will – quote by quote – reinforce important ideas about design
And by using quotes, in a subtle way, you boost your own credibility. Quotes from famous graphic designers, illustrators, web designers, or other creative people offer a second voice echoing your claims.
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| Quote | Author * | Design Field | Tweet This |
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| "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." | Steve Jobs | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Design is the intermediary between information and understanding." | Richard Grefé | general design | Tweet this! |
| "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." | Hans Hofmann | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance." | Jon Franklin | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read." | Leo Burnett | advertising | Tweet this! |
| "A logo derives meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around." | Paul Rand | logo design | Tweet this! |
| "Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended." | Raymond Loewy | general design | Tweet this! |
| "A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique." | Primo Angeli | logo design | Tweet this! |
| "The most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details." | Soumeet Lanka | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Every great design begins with an even better story." | Lorinda Mamo | general design | Tweet this! |
| "What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love." | Seth Godin | marketing | Tweet this! |
| "Practice safe design: Use a concept. " | Petrula Vrontikis | general design | Tweet this! |
| "The strongest logos tell simple stories." | Sol Sender | logo design | Tweet this! |
| "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." | Albert Einstein | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Typography exists to honor content." | Robert Bringhurst | typography | Tweet this! |
| "An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." | Bill Bernbach | creativity | Tweet this! |
| "Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak." | Rachel Zoe | fashion design | Tweet this! |
| "Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make." | Bill Bernbach | advertising | Tweet this! |
| "You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design." | Stefan Sagmeister | general design | Tweet this! |
| "I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things." | Lindon Leader | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Designing a product is designing a relationship." | Steve Rogers | product design | Tweet this! |
| "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better." | John Updike | creativity | Tweet this! |
| "No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended." | Adrian Forty | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible." | John D. Berry | general design | Tweet this! |
| "If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative." | David Ogilvy | creativity | Tweet this! |
| "Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together." | Vincent Van Gogh | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations." | Paul Rand | logo design | Tweet this! |
| "Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent." | Joe Soprano | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Bad design is like wearing a rumpled suit. It doesn't mean you're a bad person, but it may give people the wrong impression." | Unknown | general design | Tweet this! |
| "When you make something no one hates, no one loves it" | Tibor Kalman | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Design is thinking made visual." | Saul Bass | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose." | Charles Eames | general design | Tweet this! |
| "Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking." | Ellen Lupton | general design | Tweet this! |
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