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My Perspective of Graphic Design
Graphic design is loud. Not in the sense that the design is busy, aggressive, or flashy, but that it is eye-catching and striking. A design can be filled with bright colors and harsh, strong lines but it can also be simple and captivating. No matter which way a design is loud, it must be in order to catch people’s attention and make them interested. If graphic design isn’t loud, it’s commonplace, mundane, and essentially ineffective and useless.
Excellent Quotes
- Designing a product is designing a relationship – Steve Rogers
- Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit – Scott Stevenson
- Design is where science and art break even – Robin Mathew
- Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them. – Matt Beale
- Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end – Colin Wright
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