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Massimo Vignelli Quotes

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not Picture Quote #1

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity Picture Quote #1

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! Picture Quote #1

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner Picture Quote #1

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity Picture Quote #1

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable Picture Quote #1

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It is better to starve than get a bad client Picture Quote #1

Good design is ubiquitous and forever Picture Quote #1

Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental Picture Quote #1

Any color works if you push it to the extreme Picture Quote #1

If you can design one thing, you can design everything Picture Quote #1

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing Picture Quote #1

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It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach Picture Quote #1

... if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! Picture Quote #1

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness Picture Quote #1

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence Picture Quote #1

The repercussion of ugliness is endless Picture Quote #1

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style Picture Quote #1

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If you do it right, it will last forever Picture Quote #1

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren’t there to answer his wants but to answer his needs Picture Quote #1

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination Picture Quote #1

Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody Picture Quote #1

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it Picture Quote #1

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer Picture Quote #1

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The pencil you leave it there, and it’s dead. It doesn’t do anything and it doesn’t move by itself. It doesn’t offer anything; it’s totally submissive to you Picture Quote #1

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else Picture Quote #1

I’m not a designer, I’m a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the time for everything that is around Picture Quote #1

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale Picture Quote #1

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment Picture Quote #1

In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest Picture Quote #1

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Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not. (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Greed is really the religion of vulgarity (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) ...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) It is better to starve than get a bad client (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Good design is ubiquitous and forever (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Any color works if you push it to the extreme (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) If you can design one thing, you can design everything (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) ... if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) The repercussion of ugliness is endless (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) If you do it right, it will last forever (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren’t there to answer his wants but to answer his needs (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) The pencil you leave it there, and it’s dead. It doesn’t do anything and it doesn’t move by itself. It doesn’t offer anything; it’s totally submissive to you (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) I’m not a designer, I’m a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the time for everything that is around (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment (Massimo Vignelli Quotes) In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest (Massimo Vignelli Quotes)

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