Steven Held Graphic Design Portfolio

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 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 A designer comes up with a better way of communicating - showing something ordinary in an extraordinary way.” — Steven Held If your work appeals to everyone then it moves no one.” — James Victore 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