From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
Interpretation
Legibility and beauty in design are closely connected, and good type design should be effortlessly intuitive.
Adrian Frutiger emphasizes the significance of balancing legibility and aesthetic beauty in typographic design. He argues that while both elements are vital, the impact of type should be subtle enough that the reader engages with the content without being distracted by the design itself.
In practice
During a presentation on graphic design principles, this quote can illustrate the harmony between form and function.
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.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.
Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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