Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

I'm an unbelievable designer.

Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

I love designing, and I still do it.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.