Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design makes a product understandable
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is long-lasting
Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
Good design is environmentall-friendly
Good design is as little design as possible
When Karel Martens began studying art in Holland in the late 1950s, “graphic design” did not even exist as its own course of study. Today he is widely recognized as one of the most important practitioners of that very discipline, with an esteemed client list that includes major publishers,...
There is no such thing as a personal style in a designer’s work. While a job is in hand his sole concern is to arrive at the solution suggested by the thing itself and its destined use.
Hofmann is described as one of the most influential personalities in Swiss graphic design history. He contributed largely to modernism graphics and helped to shape it into what it has bedome nowadays. His style is bold, clean and asymmetric in parts, he strongly uses sans serif type and limited...
Makes me want to travel even more so.
Theres also two more titled ‘EAT’ and ‘LEARN’. Inspiring stuff, definitely worth a watch.
Botanicula (teaser) (by jdamanita)
Dieter Rams on thoughtlessness of todays marketing and design (by SteffenStaeuber)
