Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
Paul Rand
Tag: Quotes
Black / White / Red
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
Lightbulb
Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elementary, My Dear
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Sherlock Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Good & True
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in… I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things.
Ernest Hemingway speaking about The Old Man and the Sea | 1951
Ten Things
1. You can only work for people that you like.
2. If you have a choice, never have a job.
3. Some people are toxic. Avoid them.
4. Professionalism is not enough.
5. Less is not necessarily more.
6. Style is not to be trusted.
7. How you live changes your brain.
8. Doubt is better than certainty.
9. On Aging: It doesn’t matter.
10. Tell the Truth.
From Milton Glaser’s AIGA talk in London | November 22, 2001 | Read the rest
Bucky Knows
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Buckminster Fuller
The Living Brand
A brand is a living entity… the product of a thousand small gestures.
Michael Eisner