Designing for the Mind is a wonderful article on Design Informer that focuses on the overlap of science and graphic design. The article has many insights and is well designed.

This is a great way to look at design. Design is not something that exists in a vacuum, it is only a small part of a large world interacting and overlapping with other fields in various interesting ways.

The article is also a good case for why good design matters and how it can have real results when implemented properly.

Design is powerful because of the way our brain processes visuals. We might think of vision working by our eyes pulling in images and projecting them in the back of our mind. If this were the case then there would no be design or art.

The article goes on to break down some of the basic aesthetic principles, how they work inside the human mind, and how designers can use this knowledge to their benefit.

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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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