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Famous Graphic Designers Offer Advice on Design and Life to the Young

“Work your ass off + Don’t be an asshole”

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Celebrating Cassandre: Gorgeous Vintage Posters by One of History’s Greatest Graphic Designers

“He translated the essence of a thing — like a train, a ship, or a person — to the most ‘graphic’ expression.”

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Iconic Designer Massimo Vignelli on Intellectual Elegance, Education, and Love

“Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.”

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Vintage Holiday Cover Designs for Radio Times Magazine

Vibrant visual mementos of cultural obsolescence.

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The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers

A memory warehouse… a means of detachment… the perfect place to document daydreams.

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How Cinelli Revolutionized the Art and Design of the Bicycle

A visual history of how Italian designer Cino Cinelli shaped the standards for modern cycling.

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Popular Lies About Graphic Design

Debunking the misconceptions, half-truths, and dangerous mythology of creativity.

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Trailblazing Graphic Designer Paula Scher on Creativity

“To invent, you have to take the odd and the strange combination of the years of knowledge and experience.”

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The Best Design Books of 2012

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

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Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life

“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

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Search results for “design”

“Work your ass off + Don’t be an asshole”

“He translated the essence of a thing — like a train, a ship, or a person — to the most ‘graphic’ expression.”

“Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.”

Vibrant visual mementos of cultural obsolescence.

A memory warehouse… a means of detachment… the perfect place to document daydreams.

A visual history of how Italian designer Cino Cinelli shaped the standards for modern cycling.

Debunking the misconceptions, half-truths, and dangerous mythology of creativity.

“To invent, you have to take the odd and the strange combination of the years of knowledge and experience.”

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

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