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Saul Bass On Making Money vs Quality Work

Posted: January 20th, 2010 | Author: Iancu | Filed under: design, the great ones | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »

“It costs every designer money to make beautiful [things]…”
—Saul Bass

Wow. All those nights of madly trying to find the right shape, the right colour or the best proportions don’t seem so insanely wasted now. Beautiful things just take time. Sometimes you succeed in making them, sometimes you don’t. Many times you feel like quitting. But it’s all part of being a designer. We all have our ups and downs. The important thing is to keep searching, pushing yourself to do something better, more beautiful, wittier, to keep learning more and more.

Luckily, we have the great ones to remind us why we do this:



(via the silver lining)