David Carson Quotes

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

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

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.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

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

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Design is an unknown.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.