Graphic Design Portfolio of Steven Held

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A designer comes up with a better way of communicating - capable of showing something ordinary in an extraordinary way.” — Steven Held Beauty of style & harmony & grace & good rhythm depend on simplicity.” — Plato Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” — Brian Reed Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It's messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.” — Scott Stevenson Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” — Steve Jobs A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.” — Leo Frankowski To attend to the feel and form of words is to refuse to treat them in a purely instrumental way, and thus to refuse a world in which language is worn to a paper thinness by commerce and bureaucracy.” — Terry Eagleton Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions.” — R.M. Rilke If your work appeals to everyone then it moves no one.” — James Victoré It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff – as much stuff as possible – with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.” — Stefan Sagmeister It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.” — Milton Glaser It is the coming together of form and content that is the realization of design.” — Paul Rand Everything is design. Everything!” — Paul Rand I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then to finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” — Isaac Newton It used to be that designers made an object and walked away. Today the emphasis must shift to designing the entire life cycle.” — Paul Saffo I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” — Dr. Seuss Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.” — Robert Bringhurst Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.” — Calvin & Hobbes Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” — Peter Bilak Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute.” — Von R. Glitschka Design is thinking made visual.” — Saul Bass You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Ghandi Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.” Good ideas rarely come in bunches. The designer who voluntarily presents his client with a batch of layouts does so not out of prolificacy, but out of uncertainty or fear.” — Paul Rand I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.” — Jeffrey Veen People don't use a product because of the great design; great design helps them use the product.” — Viran Anuradha Dayaratne