Quotes About Visual

Illusions are a necessary consequence of intelligence. Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. Would we be better off without visual illusions? We would in fact be worse off—like a person who never says anything to avoid making any mistakes. A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.

Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So

They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless...

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Grid systems in graphic design

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.