Interviews with Great Graphic Designers

May 19th, 2010
by James Kurtz III

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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  • 1 jmorschl May 29, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    Saul Bass is right on the money.