Jake Barton Quotes

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.

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

If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

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.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

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

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

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.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

I love designing, and I still do it.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

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.

So much of design is context.

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

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

Design is an unknown.

I love design.

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.