Eric Carle Quotes

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

As designers, we have a great responsibility.

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

Design is thinking made visual.

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

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.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.