Mariam Naficy Quotes

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minted's community votes to tell us what to sell.

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)... Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis.

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy. Obviously it's more than just a set of rules, but the basics of design are actually pretty simple and quite mathematical. The link between data and design works at quite a fundamental level.

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.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Cartooning really is just designing.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women. Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

The design industry is really pathetic.

If you jump, you best jump far.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.