Steven Heller Quotes & Sayings

While photographs certainly attest to Nazi crimes, the magnitude of Nazi genocide demands that every trace of the regime be forever remembered. The various symbols devised by the Nazi image-makers for the most sophisticated visual identity of any nation are a vivid reminder of the systematic torture and murder engaged in by this totalitarian state. These pictures, signs, and emblems are not merely clip art for contemporary designers to toy with as they please, but evidence of crimes against humanity. — Steven Heller

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. — Steven Heller

When you're living in the moment, you're living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that's your reality. Everything else is a myth. — Steven Heller

The logo is an identifier but it's also something that stands-in for who you are. — Steven Heller

Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages. — Steven Heller

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good. — Steven Heller