Aaron Patzer 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.

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

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 to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

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

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.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

I love design.

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.

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.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

I love designing, and I still do it.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

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.

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 am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

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

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

Everyday people are not very good designers.