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| 'I believe that "design"
as such is grossly undervalued in our society and
education because the awful Greek gang of three
led us to believe that analysis and judgments were
enough. Most of the major problems in the world
will not be solved by further analysis. They need
design' |
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By Beryl Mc Alhone & David Stuart, 'A smile
in the mind' [b] |
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| 'The
best graphic design does more then captures attention
and makes the audience linger. It prolongs the encounter,
compelling the reader, not only to notice, but to
remember' |
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By Beryl Mc Alhone & David Stuart, 'A smile
in the mind' [b] |
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| 'Visual
communication of any kind, whether persuasive or
informative, from billboards to birth announcements
should be seen as the embodiment of form and function:
the integration of the beautiful and the useful.
In an advertisement, copy, art, and typography are
seen as a living entity; each element integrally
related, in harmony with the whole, and essential
to the execution of the idea' |
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By Paul Rand, Thoughts on design [b] |
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| 'The
longevity of today's designs will be judged not
only by their art but also by the intelligence they
can convey.' |
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By Felix Gluck, 1968, 'World Graphic Design'
Fifty Years of Advertising [b] |
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| 'Purpose'
exists in human minds, 'results' exists in things.
Pye says it is better to found a practice of design
on 'result', not a theory based around intentions' |
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By David Pye,
'The nature of aesthetics of design', CHAPTER -
'Valuing the handmade'[b] |
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| 'If
I could make musicians of all of you, it would be
to your advantage as painters. all is harmony in
nature, a little too much, or a little less, disturbs
the scale and strikes a discordant note. One has
to learn to sing true with the pencil or brush,
just as with the voice; correct form is like correct
sound' |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French
painter, artlex.com |
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| 'Graphic
design is the most ubiquitous of all the arts. it
responds to needs at once personal and public, embraces
concerns both economic and ergonomic, and is informed
by many disciplines including art and architecture,
philosophy and ethics, literature and language,
science and politics and performance' |
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By Aiga [b] |
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| Quote
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| 'If
design moves to far ahead of what people understand,
then it fails them as consumers and they stop consuming' |
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By Peter Dormer, Towards the 21st Century [b] |
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Quote 9
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'Design becomes
a word for describing the nature of human artefacts,
a noun and a verb for the process and presence
of human creativity. It differs from art and from
craft, but overlaps both, as it does other activities;
other labels we might care to apply'
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Source
By David Carson, 2nd Sight: Grafik Design After
the End of Print [b]
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Quote 10
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'Like anything
else, design can be whatever you want it to be.
The only limitation is when you come to share
that vision with somebody else…then you have
to find a common ground'
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Source
By David Carson, 2nd Sight:Grafik Design After
the End of Print [b]
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| Quotes on graphic
design used within articles: |
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| Quote 1 |
used within
The Connection articles
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| 'While
the graphic design-commerce connection contains
many links, a major reason for the conjoining is
self-interest. both graphic design and corporate
interests sought to promote themselves to the public.
Though the power relationship has never approached
equality, graphic design regarded it as a mutually-beneficial
partnership. At its best, it provoked statements
such as Thomas Watson's -- one which arguably continues
to fall on deaf ears and is impossible to confirm' |
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By Kenneth FitzGerald, Adversarial
thoughts, Adversary exhibition, 2001 [b] |
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used within
The Connection articles
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| 'The
cross-fertilisation between art and advertising,
design and fashion, is now seamless and runs in
both directions' |
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Art Review, related to Century City Exhibition,
By J.Mc Ewen [b] |
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used within
The Connection articles
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| 'For modern advertising
and for modern exponent of form the individual element
- the artist's 'own touch' - is of absolutely no
consequence' |
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Has been said
by El Lissitzky |
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used within
The Connection articles
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| 'An artist who
specializes in the design of visual communications.
originally used to designate designers of typography
and printing, it now refers to a wide range of information
design activity' |
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By P.H.Meggs, 'A History of Graphic Design', Glossary
[b
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| Quote 5 |
used within
The Connection articles
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| 'Logo is an emblem
or device used as the badge of an organization in
display material. [Abbreviation of logotype]' |
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© Copyright Oxford University Press 1996 |
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| Quote 6 |
used within
The Connection articles
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| 'The world's best corporate image
is not coca-cola, IBM or NIKE "SWOOSH"
- it's France's Michelin man.......as sir Terence
Conran says "he makes me smile"' |
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By Alan Rowsthorn, Weekend magazine FT.28/10/00
[b] |
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| Quote 7 |
used within
The Connection articles
.... view |
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| 'Packaging, the technology used
to contain, protect, and preserve products throughout
their distribution, storage and handling, and at
the same time to identify them, provide instructions
for their use, and promote them. Packaging is frequently
designed as part of an entire system of distribution;
for example, the shape of the outer packaging has
to be designed to make the best use of space' |
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Original edition copyright © Merriam Webster
Inc., 1984; Second edition new material copyright
© Longman Group UK Ltd, 1991 |
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8 |
used
within The Connection articles
.... view |
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GOOD DESIGN IS GOOD BUSINESS
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By Thomas Watson ( - the title of a 1975 speech
given by former IBM chairman) |
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| Quote
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used
within The Connection articles
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| 'This chronicle of graphic design
was written in the belief that if we understand
the past, we will be better able to continue a cultural
legacy of beautiful form and effective communication' |
Source
Foreword by Philip B.Meggs, 'A History of Graphic
Design' [b]
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10 |
used
within The Connection articles
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| 'By
making comparisons between definitions, various
point of view and the linguistic differences as
to what art and what graphic design was then, and
what does it mean now I had acquired further knowledge
and over all better understanding of graphic design' |
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By M. Pietkiewicz - Price, BA
Honours, Applied Graphic Design, 2005, written for
The Connection, published with mpgraphics2001 |
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11 |
used
within The Connection articles
.... view |
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| 'You
have to have the idea before you can go to the computer
or your work will lack authority. The way I do that
is with a pencil, paper and stupid little drawings.' |
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By Jonathan Barnbrook, Typography
[b] |
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12 |
used
within The Connection articles
.... view |
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| "The designer must be at all
times a mediator, an interpreter: through his imagination,
his experience and his knowledge of the art, craft,
and science of printing he converts the typescript
into a book and expresses the author's words clearly
and sympathetically to the reader and yet his designed
for a clear text, however good in itself, is not
enough; his integration into the text of the illustrations,
their print on pleasing paper, the book's insertion
into a strong binding within an irresistible jacket,
are needed to fuse the whole book into the harmony
that seems easy and irresistible." |
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By John Trevitt .... more |
| 'Graphic
Design is it Art? ..... more |
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