A Designer's Art
by Paul Rand
appears in Design, Design, and Art.
Graphic Design which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of twodimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sansserifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups is not good design if it is irrelevant.Graphic design which evokes the symmet...
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