Wim Crouwel quotes
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“You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.”
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“Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.”
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“The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.”
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“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 CrouwelSource : "Beautiful Games: stylised football posters", www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.”
-- Wim CrouwelSource : "Helvetica". Documentary, 2007.
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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“Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.”
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“Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.”
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“I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.”
Source : "Alexander Siddig Exclusive Interview; The CAIRO TIME Star Opens Up About DEEP SPACE NINE, MIRAL, His Sci-Fi Obsession, More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. August 9, 2010.
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“As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.”
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Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth
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“In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.”
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