Quotes About Communication

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

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.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

Design is thinking made visual.

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.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

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

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.

Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.