Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it’s never really going to go away.

It’s not Art. And Art is not Design.

My hope is that when people first see the cover, they won’t understand what they are seeing. Then, only as they read the book or the flap copy will that image change from dishes with...

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it’s … makin’ ART.

The lobby there, … is the sort of place where you walk in and you feel like you’re there to sign a treaty.

But at the end of the day, you can’t major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

I originally thought of that shot of the tea set covered in the ash from 9/11.

(…) photography opened up quite a little Pandora’s box, kiddies. (…) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated...

(…) I’m not much of anything, (…) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are …?

Did they want what I wanted?Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to...

He was the most astonishing contradiction of components I’d ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent regarding his own abilities but not to the point that he...

Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the...

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can’t cash.

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

Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses. The man-made world means exactly that. There isn’t an inch of it that doesn’t have to be dealt with, figured out, executed. And it’s waiting for you to decide...

Penguin Classic, with the orange bands at the top and bottom; and the Gill Sans thirty-sixpoint title, all caps, centered and medium weight, in black on the white band in the middle. One of the...