David Carson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
-- David Carson

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Design
It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.
-- David Carson

#Eye #Knowing #Giving
You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
-- David Carson

#Motivation #Inspiration #Parent
Never mistake legibility for communication.
-- David Carson

#Mistake #Communication #Legibility
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.
-- David Carson

#Halloween #August #Gold
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.
-- David Carson

#Design #Use #Information
Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.
-- David Carson

#Communication #Mean #Legibility
Just because something is legible doesnâ€™t mean it communicates.
-- David Carson

#Mean #Communicate
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
-- David Carson

#Interesting #Design #Training
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
-- David Carson

#Chaos #Reader #Invites
Don't confuse legibility with communication.
-- David Carson

#Communication #Legibility
The station was tight, aggressive ... the deejays at times sounding as if they were broadcasting at gunpoint.
-- David Carson

#Broadcasting #Deejays #Aggressive

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