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Never Use White Type on a Black Background and 50 other Ridiculous Design Rules

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Design isn’t art Usability is often considered to be the decisive factor in the whole art versus design debate. The general consensus seems to be: if you can’t use it, it’s probably art. But with the dividing line between art and design growing increasingly blurry, the debate continues.

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” Paul Rand (1914-1996), American graphic designer “If one of the definitions we have concerning art is that it serves its public by reflecting and explaining the world at a particular moment in history, it is hard to believe that design does not serve in a similar way.” Milton Glaser (1929), American graphic designer and illustrator


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