Shepard Fairey Quotes

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

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.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

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

I want Off-White to be a graphics-based brand.

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

I absolutely don't deny that I was inspired by 'Fight Club,' among many other television shows and films. I completely not only acknowledge it, I own it and love to nod to them as much as possible.

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.

Sometimes, I think filmmakers grab too much from real life.

Type is your brand.

I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

'Shaggy' is a brand.

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they're the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you're brand means within a T-shirt.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'

The branding stuff is really fun.

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.