Stefan Sagmeister Quotes

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

I love design.

You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

I was always a design junkie.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

As a designer, everything is always about aesthetics mixed in with functionality and having that visual appeal. But you learn fast as a new parent with an infant that if it’s not deeply practical as well, then forget about it. Style wise, I wanted to design items that would work well in any nursery - regardless of gender.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Design is everything.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.