Visual Culture

“Where do ideas come from? From looking at one thing and seeing another.”

Saul Bass

Most of the mediocre design today comes from designers who are faithfully doing as they were taught in school: they worship at the altar of the visual.

-Michael Bierut
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“In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.”

- Christoph Niemann

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Any time is a good time for an enlightening message. The following are some of our favorites of From Up North’s Inspiration Gallery. Check this for the complete thought-provoking collection.

“A work of art is realized when form and content are indistinguishable. When they are in synthesis. In other words, when they fuse.”

-Paul Rand

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“Don’t let your ideas stew for too long before moving into action.”

—Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter

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“A blog is a a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies.”

Andrew Sullivan

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“Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you’re probably doing good design.”

Yves Behar

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Michael Bierut

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Over the last year we’ve collected over 65 quotes on design and culture in our Quote of the Week series. This find of Si Scott’s visualization of the Dalai Llama’s quote “Learn the Rules So You Know How To Break Them Properly” is quite nice.