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Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. -- Shawn Fanning
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. -- Jeffery Keedy
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. -- Adrian Frutiger
The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face. -- Virginia Postrel
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all. -- Frederic Goudy
All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience. -- Tom Bissell
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses. -- Colleen Atwood
I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different. -- Chad Hurley
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. -- Bill Gates
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity. -- Frei Otto
It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one. -- Caitlin Moran
Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts. -- Niki Tsongas
Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't. -- Anthony Hamilton
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. -- Carl Sandburg
I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do. -- Michael Bierut

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