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10-Seth Godin

cj-madigan — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:28:47 +0000

When everyone has the same Mac and the same internet, the difference between hackneyed graphic design and extraordinary graphic design is just one thing—the ability to see.

— Seth Godin

9 – charles eames

cj-madigan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:51:03 +0000

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— charles eames

8-keith smith

cj-madigan — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:19:45 +0000

Pacing of the book is the synchronization or syncopation of the content with turning pages. The format can reinforce and even speak aside from the text. Writing specifically in the book format, as opposed to a running manuscript, brings to the reader a book experience.

back cover copy from text in the book format by keith smith

7-frank nuovo

cj-madigan — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:28:49 +0000

Design in its simplest form is the activity of creating solutions.

Frank Nuovo quoted in A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink

6-sidney poitier

cj-madigan — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:26:54 +0000

I don’t think we tell our stories enough and I think that it is absolutely essential that we do…When we die, we are going to be taking with us to the grave an enormous amount of information, experience, points of view, attitudes…We should leave some of those parts of ourselves behind.

Sidney Poitier

5-Patti Smith

cj-madigan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:49:56 +0000

There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

Patti Smith in accepting a 2011 National Book Award for Just Kids: A Memoir

4-Gilbert Highet

cj-madigan — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:37:09 +0000

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ~Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)

3-Steve Jobs

cj-madigan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:04:11 +0000

In most people’s vocabulary, “design” means veneer. It is interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs
quoted in Icon by Jeffrey Young & William Simon

2-Sas Colby

cj-madigan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:51:35 +0000

The complex nature of books as objects is in my bones. I am drawn to their container-like quality, their layered sequential revelation, and their ability to both reveal and conceal. I like the intimacy of books requiring one’s time and touch. Books still occupy an iconic position in our culture; I have a mystical concept of the book and the body as a unity: the book is the word, the word is the voice, the voice is the body, the body is the book.

— Sas Colby

1-Hope Edelman

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:10:40 +0000

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

Hope Edelman