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Inspirational Quotes on Design

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

— Bruno Munari

Design is intelligence made visible.

– Don Newgren

Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.

– Vincent Van Gogh

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

– Massimo Vignelli

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations

– Paul Rand

Advertising doesn¹t create a product advantage. It can only convey it

– William Bernbach

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

– Jan Tschichold

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.

– Paola Antonelli

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

– Steve Jobs

Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.

– Noreen Morioka

How Luxury Advertisements focus on the product

I’m pretty sure you all have seen at least one upscale advertisement. One thing I have always noticed is that they tend to focus on the product and the experience more then anything. Also the advertisements are simple and understandable.

The advertisement above shows a simple and luxurious feel symbolize an elegant feel. The surrounding colors blend and match well with her outfit. If you notice the background brick wall and what looks like a cement pillar. So those elements including the jacket instantly remind me of new york. Check out some more luxury advertisements Here

What Neil Armstrong taught us about belief

I am pretty sure that if you have not heard the famous quote That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong said that it was misquoted before his passing

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”

― Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong saying those few words continues to inspire us to believe. Because every little thing you take is a small step towards changing your life.

Neil was apart of the Apollo 17 moon landing mission that took off on July 16, 1969. Then they landed on the moon July 20, 1969. The thought of being able to have human beings on the moon allows us to have a greater belief of what is actually possible.
So remember

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

– W. Clement Stone

Also remember to have fun with whatever it is your doing just like the Apollo 17 crew below

Tina Roth Eisenberg: PSFK Conference New York 2010

When I first came across the Blog Swiss Miss  I was blown away. I love everything about the blog. She also is the founder of creativemornings and tattly. One day I do want to travel to Switzerland. I want to experience the atmosphere, and to see the designs, museums and whatever else there would be to do there. But anyhow the speech Tina does is great one thing that shocked me was how the Swiss used helvetica on garbage bags. That could probably be because I’m used to them being a solid black or white.

What Would you like to me to Blog About?

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Thanks

Josten

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

 

When I first learned about Stefan Sagmeister in School I had no idea who he was. Then I came across this video of him talking about taking a whole year off from work. There have been times when I felt overworked and exhausted creatively but I kept going. When I first experienced that I did not have an idea of what to do about it. So learning how valuable it is to take time off and to not experience a burnout was a great learning experience for me.