“There comes a point (and it comes very soon sometimes) when, unless he is very firmly convinced that there is something in his idea, it is better to abandon it and start afresh.”

Lewis F. Day | pattern designer
Pattern Design, Dover Publications, Inc., pg 205

“I know very well that knowledge gained in practice can be only very partially conveyed in words.”

Lewis F. Day | pattern designer
Pattern Design, Dover Publications, Inc., pg vii

“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”

Robert Bringhurst on the rules of typography from Elements of Typographic Style, pg 10

“This may seem self-evident, but I believe most people have the idea that teaching is essentially about transfering a body of facts of technical information to a student. This of course, is part of teaching, but creating an attitude toward those facts is even more significant.”

Milton Glaser | artist, designer and educator, The Education of a Graphic Designer, edited by Steven Heller, pg 184

“The Blob will glub him.”

The Golux from The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber