“According to Creative Boom, the essential characteristics and competencies of a graphic designer include "communication skills, curiosity, passion and drive, openness, ability to take criticism, problem-solving skills, self-doubt, patience, reliability, and evolution."”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“The crisis of graphic design which we will have to address and that is the notion that when this is your world, you move from a reality where under modernity the viewer is an observer of reality to the new paradigm where you are the protagonist of reality. You are the camera that can move in any dir…”— David Rudnick, youtube.com
“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, vimeo.com
“There is a great misconception in this era of graphic design that it is a medium of self-expression”— Peter Saville, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Logic will get you nowhere. But imagination has the opportunity to rescue you from the quicksand of logic.”— Stephen Doyle, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“What interests me in architecture and design is work that is awkward, and not beautiful, and a little bit idiosyncratic.”— Abbot Miller, amazon.com
“The essence is what is left when there’s nothing else that you can throw away.”— Massimo Vignelli, amazon.com
“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 co…”— Richard Turley, medium.com
“The idea of the artist as auteur, the virtuoso, is so rarely applicable and yet so needfully desired.”— Richard Turley, medium.com
“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, medium.com
“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, medium.com
“I was in despair. Deep despair, I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalized the drawing into a line and put a circle round it. It was ridiculous at first and s…”— Gerald Holtom, amazon.com
“Graphic design is an excellent preparation for any profession because it teaches you that for any one problem, there are infinite potential solutions.”— Biz Stone, amazon.com