John Burroughs Quotes

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.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

I'm an unbelievable designer.

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.

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

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.

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

Anybody can tell you what they think. But if you can illustrate what you think, you have a better chance of persuading people.

Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page.