Typography Quotes
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language is forming out assholes.
Neville Brody
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
Wolfgang Weingart
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The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.
Ed Benguiat
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
Neville Brody
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Typography is what language looks like.
Ellen Lupton
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Old typography or letter woodblocks that are hand-carved, cracked, and worn are especially beautiful. I love that aged, handmade effect, and that's why I don't muck around much with Photoshop.
Ben Eine
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Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.
Wolfgang Weingart
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Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
Adrian Frutiger
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The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
Adrian Frutiger
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Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
Ellen Lupton
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To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
Ellen Lupton
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There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Beatrice Warde
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To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.
Walter Tracy
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Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
Erik Spiekermann
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
Renzo Piano
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I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.
Ben Eine
