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    The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
    The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
    The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
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    The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom

    By Sara Bader

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    Whether musing about the creative process, the merits of failure and criticism, or the challenges of keeping the studio lights on, designers make good, and opinionated, copy. The Designer Says, the follow-up to our best-selling The Architect Says, is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's leading practitioners. Quotes are paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party. A designer from the nineteenth century might sit next to one working today or two contemporary designers may strike up a conversation. Listen in as they compliment, provoke, and one-up each other in this lively volume of insights.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2014
    ISBN9781616892944
    The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
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    Sara Bader

    Sara Bader is an editor, writer, and researcher. She has worked as an acquisitions editor for Princeton Architectural Press and senior editor for Phaidon. In addition to editing visual culture books, she has conceived and researched quotation collections for both publishers, including The Designer Says, Art Is the Highest Form of Hope, and Every Day a Word Surprises Me, among others. In 2010, she launched Quotenik.com, a growing library of verified quotations.

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      Bought this for the head of design at my company and she loved the quotes. It's a nicely bound book, too.

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    The Designer Says - Sara Bader

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    PREFACE

    Long before I worked at Princeton Architectural Press, I collected the books published by this small East Village company. In bookstores, I browsed the shelves, looking for the signature logo on the spine. I’d pull out a PAPress book, and invariably it would be one I wanted to own: a collection of illustrated letters from the Smithsonian’s archives or a history of the local architecture and traditions of a small fishing village in Newfoundland. The design of the books themselves reflected the integrity of the content: they were as satisfying to read as to hold. This was a place I wanted to work.

    I am now fortunate to be a part of this creative community, editing books on visual culture and design. For more than thirty years, PAPress has published hundreds of titles on design, including monographs of both emerging talent and established practitioners, design briefs, and collections of essays. Our extensive library is just a few feet from my desk. I am surrounded by the words of many of the finest designers—and their words can influence the way we see the world.

    Over the last few years, I’ve become somewhat of a nerdy quote collector. When reading, I no longer flag sentences I want to remember and then promptly return the book to the shelf. I’ve built a quotation library online at Quotenik.com, so I can share those words with others and easily find them again. I believe that a well-framed thought, read or heard at the right time, can change our perspective, even impact the choices we make. Francis Bacon described quotations as the edge-tools of speech—which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs. James Geary, author of Geary’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Aphorists, compared his collection to a Swiss army knife for the mind.

    The Designer Says, the second volume in this series, follows the structure of the inaugural compilation, The Architect Says: one quotation per page, each spread a dialog between two designers. Seymour Chwast avoids the color chartreuse, while Wim Crouwel leans on blue; Sara De Bondt and Carin Goldberg address the necessity of collaboration; and Bruce Mau encourages designers to imitate, but Fabien

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