“The other part of this gestational burden — and the one that bears most heavily on us despite the joy of finishing the project — is that the book is, relatively speaking, incomplete.”

—Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit, Graphic Design Referenced

“It is tough to retain integrity and make a living. … However, as a general rule, the designer who behaves morally will do better than the one who doesn’t – if only because design is a social activity, with social consequences.”
—Adrian Shaughnessy, How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

“Some ideas are rejected before they are expressed on paper, and others end up crowding a number of wastebaskets.”

—Allen Hurlburt, Layout

“If you think about it, the only things our eyes can see are color and shape.”

—Mark Gatter, Getting it Right in Print: Digital Prepress for Graphic Designers