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Everyone talks design. Everyone thinks design. Anyone can design.

— Marcus Storm, Frontiers Of Design

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Exhibition design and installations can be an actual antidote to design becoming a commodity because they're quite literally one-offs.

— Jaime Krone, Frontiers Of Design

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The role of the designer is to rehearse the future

— Isabelle Olsson, Frontiers Of Design

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I think what people miss is that we want personality in design work [...] we don't want a templated world.

— Richard Turley, Frontiers Of Design

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What I’m trying to do is between Supreme and Celine.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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I hate stores. Stores are corny. It’s a fact. Who wants to be sold anything?

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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My greatest design tool personally is to look at what that genre is doing and make it 3–5% different. It’s in a way, trolling.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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What are we doing as designers to add character.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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It’s easier to be a critic than to produce work. So the only way to get to the end means is to start the domino effect. Which is essentially put out bad work.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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[Off-white is] not a brand. It’s a faux luxury product.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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Humor is an entry point for humanity.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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Modern culture thrives off of the ironic.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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Young architects can change the world by not building buildings.

— Virgil Abloh, Introduction to Virgil Abloh, Everything in Quotes — 2x4

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A creative idea needs creative direction not group consensus

— Lucian Trestler, via bbh-labs.com

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However much we would like advertising to be a science—because life would be simpler that way—the fact is that it is not. It is a subtle, ever-changing art, defying formularization, flowering on freshness and withering on imitation; where what was effective one day, for that very reason, will not be effective the next, because it has lost the maximum impact of originality.

— Luke Sullivan and Bill Bernbach, Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

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It always seemed clear that the real challenge for the designer was to help make our world a better place than it would be without our efforts.

— Burton Kramer, Design Canada

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Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

— Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

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The invention of typography confirmed and extended the new visual stress of applied knowledge, providing the first uniformly repeatable “commodity,” the first assembly-line, and the first mass-production.

— Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

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I operate very strongly with my instincts… If I don’t get it in the first crack I get it in the second and if I don’t get it in the second I almost never get it.

— Paula Scher, ARTIST SERIES: Paula Scher

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There is a great misconception in this era of graphic design that it is a medium of self-expression

— Peter Saville, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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Design is supposed to be about something else, and not about you; but I think the only way it’s actually any good—and to get people to care about it—is if it’s also about you at the same time.

— Paul Sahre, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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I’m often asked for advice on how to become a better graphic designer, and this is my response: Two things—learn how to do crossword puzzles, and learn how to write.

— Chip Kidd, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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I never know if anything I’ve created is good, but I know I’m done when I give up looking for other ideas.

— Seymour Chwast, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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Logic will get you nowhere. But imagination has the opportunity to rescue you from the quicksand of logic.

— Stephen Doyle, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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What interests me in architecture and design is work that is awkward, and not beautiful, and a little bit idiosyncratic.

— Abbot Miller, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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The essence is what is left when there’s nothing else that you can throw away.

— Massimo Vignelli, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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We’re products of an Internet-fed culture that pulverises every idea into a dozens of smaller pieces, the pieces mingling with others and reforming into “new” ideas which are in turn smashed and so the cycle continues, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly… An ever evolving sequence of fragmentation and consolidation.

— Richard Turley, Logoblahhhhhz – Richard Turley – Medium

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The idea of the artist as auteur, the virtuoso, is so rarely applicable and yet so needfully desired.

— Richard Turley, Logoblahhhhhz – Richard Turley – Medium

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I find it far more interesting, dare I say it — original — in this day and age to be honest to the fact that anyone involved in any creative practice is knitting together other peoples ideas, influences to create their own outcomes.

— Richard Turley, Logoblahhhhhz – Richard Turley – Medium

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Humans like to copy. We’re sheep. We like to be part of a gang, to belong. Aesthetic themes and approaches have been circulated and replicated through the ages regardless of the presence of online mood boards.

— Richard Turley, Logoblahhhhhz – Richard Turley – Medium

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Intelligent people have spent far too much time talking about robots. What we need is fewer people imagining what robots could do and more people thinking about racism.

— Tibor Kalman, Color Him a Provocateur

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So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

— Tibor Kalman, Color Him a Provocateur

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We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color - because you don't want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

— Tibor Kalman, Color Him a Provocateur

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