Wim Crouwel famous quotes

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Design #Computer #Speed

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Design #Problem #Problem Solving

The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Helvetica #Typefaces

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Football #Games #Play

Neutrality has its own aesthetics.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Neutrality #Aesthetics

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Book #Design #Waiting

Living with computers gives funny ideas.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Ideas #Giving #Computer

Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Real #Steps #Should

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.
-- Wim Crouwel

#Children #Steps

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.