Design Is Everything. Everything!

Artistic Tricks Divert From The Effect That An Artist Endeavors To Produce, And Even Excellent Elements Such As Bullets, Arrows, Brackets, Ornate Initials, Are At Best Superficial Ornamentation Unless Logically Employed.

The Public Is More Familiar With Bad Design Than Good Design. It Is, In Effect, Conditioned To Prefer Bad Design, Because That Is What It Lives With. The New Becomes Threatening, The Old Reassuring.

Don't Try To Be Original; Just Try To Be Good.

Providing, Meaning To A Mass Of Unrelated Needs, Ideas, Words And Pictures - It Is The Designer's Job To Select And Fit This Material Together And Make It Interesting.

Asymmetric Balance Creates Greater Reader Interest. Pleasure Derived From Observing Asymmetrical Arrangements Lies Partly In Overcoming Resistances, Which, Consciously Or Not, The Spectator Adjusts In His Own Mind.