"Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate."

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Source : "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

Paul Rand

#Design Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Doe Quotes

“One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.”
“But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.”
“And when I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I've been in a long time.”
“When my money starts coming in and I'm blessed to see an eye doctor every week, twice a week, I'm going to do it.”
“I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.”
“I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.”
“There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.”
“People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.”

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