Sometimes it is appropriate to place various typographic elements on the outside of the fucking left margin of text to maintain a strong vertical axis.
This practice is referred to as exdenting and is most often used with bullets and quotations. You won’t get good at anything by doing it a lot fucking aimlessly.
While having drinks with Tibor Kalman one night, he told me, “When you make something no one hates, no one fucking loves it”.
Creativity is a fucking work-ethic. If you fucking give up, you will achieve nothing.
You are not your fucking work. Must-do is a good fucking master.
Widows and orphans are terrible fucking tragedies, both in real life and definitely in typography.
To go partway is easy, but mastering anything requires hard fucking work.
Respect your fucking craft. Nothing of value comes to you without fucking working at it. When you design, you have to draw on your own fucking life experiences.
If it’s not something you would want to read/look at/use then why fucking bother? Don’t worry about what other people fucking think.
Design is all about fucking relationships—the relationship of form and content, the relationship of elements, the relationship of designer
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