design
quotes
“I
learned
a lot
about
the
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cumulative
value
of
attention
to
detail
from
Steve
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Jobs,
and
about
pushing
the
limits
of
a
medium.
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I still
think
about
his
philosophy
of
not
showing
too
much
information
at
once
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and
the
value
of
simplicity
in
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visual
messaging.”
— susan kare
Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. As an early pioneer of pixel art and of the graphical computer interface, she has been celebrated as one of the most significant technologists of the modern world.
The ⌘ symbol (the "looped square") was chosen by Susan Kare after Steve Jobs decided that the use of the Apple logo in the menu system (where the keyboard shortcuts are displayed) would be an over-use of the logo. Apple's adaptation of the symbol — encoded in Unicode at U+2318 — was derived in part from its use in Nordic countries as an indicator of cultural locations and places of interest. The symbol is known by various other names, including "Saint John's Arms" and "Bowen knot".
— wikipedia
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susan kare
“Design
is
the
metod
of
putting
form
and
content
together.
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Design,
just
as
art,
has
multiple
definitions;
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there
is
no
single
definition.
Design
can
be
art.
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Design
can
be
aesthetics.
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Design
is
so
simple,
that’s
why
it
is
so
complicated.”
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— paul rand
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design.
— wikipedia
When was Steve Jobs asked how it was to work with Rand (on the NeXT project), he replied, "I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, 'No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don't have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people."
— grapheine.com
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portrait by peter arnell
— gerd arntz
Gerd Arntz was a socially inspired and politically committed German Modernist artist. During his career, Arntz designed around 4000 different pictograms and abstracted illustrations for the Isotype project. Produced under Arntz’s creative guidance, a collection of 100 visual statistics, was published in 1930. For activist artists like Arntz, the wood-cut was the chosen medium, because of its ‘primitive’ aspect and its clearblack-and-white contrast. In the 1930s, Arntz switched to linoleum-cuts.
— gerdarntz.org
Published in small avant-garde magazines, his work was noticed by Otto Neurath, an econimist and social scientist and founder of the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna, Austria. Neurath was the inventor of the ISOTYPE (The International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in museum practice. Neurath and Arntz made extensive collections of visual statistics in this manner, and their system became a world-wide emulated example of what we now term: infographics.
— wikipedia
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photo by robert scheers
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“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.”
“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.”
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“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.”
“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.”
— dieter rams
Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hessen) is a German industrial designer and retired academic, closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in "Less, but better" design generated a timeless quality in his products and have influenced the design of many products, which also secured Rams worldwide recognition and appreciation.
— wikipedia
Rams is an author of 10 principles for good design — a method of organizing his own thinking about what makes good design. Good design: (1) is innovative (2) makes a product useful (3) is aesthetic (4) makes a product understandable (5) is unobtrusive (6) is honest (7) is long-lasting (8) is thorough down to the last detail (9) is environmentally friendly (10) is minimal — Less is more.
— designmuseum.org
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photo by gary hustwit
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