Design

Chip Kidd: Keep an open mind, develop a thick skin, and if you get a design rejected you really have to look at that as an opportunity to start over and do something better.

Heinz Schulz-Neudamm. Some of his works are in museums in Germany and the United States. His best-known work is the 1926 poster for Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.

Chip Kidd: Keep an open mind, develop a thick skin, and if you get a design rejected you really have to look at that as an opportunity to start over and do something better.

Edward Penfield: A poster, to be effective, must have the same qualities that a good painting possesses – color, simplicity and composition – but must be expressed in a different manner.

Larrea Brothers: The design system was simple: each one made a sketch with the ordered theme, we put them on the table and chose which concept worked best. Decisions were quick and pragmatic. The [...]

Saul Bass: I came to grips with what I think is the most challenging aspect of any creative endeavor. And that is deal with ordinary things, things that we know so well that we’ve ceased to see [...]

Sebastian Lester: I try not to be a stylist. Bruce Lee believed in being ‘formless’ in his discipline and I aspire to be the same in mine. Ideally I want to try to constantly evolve and progress, [...]

William Morris: If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Gerald Scarfe: If I’m enjoying myself, I’m always full of ideas. The less interference I have, the more lateral my thinking.

Alphonse Mucha: The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we [...]