This video is from circa 2003 and is still worth a watch. It’s a great introduction to the art of type design for the non-initiated.

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Today, June 5, 2010 is my 30th birthday.

Hard to believe that my 20s are over. They were a fun time, no doubt, but now I’m looking forward to the next decade of growth and experience. I suppose, that now, I am officially an adult—oh God, does this mean I’m middle-aged? Nah!

Roughly 100 years ago the then Prime Minister of France, Georges Clemenceau, said “Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.” Well, I hope he was at least partially right.

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Saul Bass on Making Money vs. Quality Work

Paul Rand Interview (1 of 3)

“People don’t understand how or why a logo is designed… People think that the important thing about a logo is that it illustrates what the business does, or what it represents - which is nonsense.”
-Paul Rand

Paul Rand Interview (2 of 3)

“These things look very simple but they take forever to do.”
-Paul Rand

Paul Rand Interview (3 of 3)

Stefan Sagmeister

“Design has many more functions than promoting or selling.”

David Carson

“The starting point is never to make something ugly, or to make it hard to read, or to make it award winning or to make it pretty. The starting point is to try to interpret something.”

Milton Glaser

“The life of a designer is a life that is very much between two sensibilities that of the business man and that of the artist.”

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This is one of the better ones I’ve ever seen or heard:

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That’s enough Forbes!

First Forbes Magazine championed crowd-sourcing graphic design sites like CrowdSpring and called the graphic design industry “snooty.” Now they have insulted Cleveland by calling it the nation’s most miserable city. The list of miserable cities includes not only Cleveland but also Akron, Toledo, and Youngstown—every major city in northern Ohio.

Within one year they have insulted both my profession and my hometown. If I was Stephen Colbert, Forbes would officially be “on notice.”

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