Michael Bierut Quotes & Sayings

No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it. — Michael Bierut

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. — Michael Bierut

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients. — Michael Bierut

...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great. — Michael Bierut

I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from 1991 and look at all the names and appointments and things that, at the time, seemed so important. Meetings that I was really worried about, things that I was getting calls four times a day about, and I wonder, "Where did it all go? Where are they now?" It's so strange, everything has disappeared. The only thing that stays behind is the work. — Michael Bierut

The problem contains the solution. — Michael Bierut

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at. — Michael Bierut

the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be. — Michael Bierut

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE. — Michael Bierut

Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything. — Michael Bierut

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith. — Michael Bierut

Simplicity, wit, and good typography. — Michael Bierut

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying ... — Michael Bierut

designers actually can change the world for the better by making the complicated simple and finding beauty in truth. — Michael Bierut