John Langdon Quotes

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

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

I love designing, and I still do it.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I'm an unbelievable designer.

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.

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.

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

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

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 a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

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.

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.

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.

I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.

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.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

What I do is create images, period.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.