Visual Culture

“Making good design is easy. It’s polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.”

Stefan Bucher

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“The design business continues to navel gaze. Designers are still designing for other designers rather than working to convince the business world of the importance of design in our lives.”

Joe Duffy

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“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”

James Baldwin

“Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation’s intellectual status.”

Peter Behrens

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“I think the design of participatory systems in which many more forms of value beyond simply cash are both created and measured is going to be the major theme not only for design but also for our economy as we go forward.”

Tim Brown

“It’s about whittling. It’s about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you’ve got something.”

James Victore

“Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.”

Thomas Edison

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“Always design a thing by considering its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Eero Saarinen

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“Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.”

Noreen Morioka

“If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence. ”

Bruno Monguzzi