Everyone looks at things but very few people see effectively. Designers must be able to see. Seeing means a trained super-awarness of visual codes like shape, colour, texture, pattern and contrast. These codes make a language of vision, much as words are building blocks for verbal language.
Gregg Berryman
A professor at California State University and a practising design consultant and author of several articles and books on design theory and tips on visual communication.
Clarity
Design Skills
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams
A German industrial designer closely associated with functionalist school of industrial design.
Clarity
Simplicity
It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent.
John Cleese
An English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. A co-founder of the comedy troupe Monty Python.
Being Disciplined
Being Organised
Focus
Tell me sweet, tell me true, or else my dear, to hell with you.
Vince Lombardi
An American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).