Lee Ranaldo Quotes

In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

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.

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

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

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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.

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.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

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

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

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

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'

I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.

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