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“Do I want to be feared or loved? That’s a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me!”
-Michael Scott

Truth is, we just love the word “zig.” But this is still a good quote:
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
-Zig Ziglar

“Design is thinking made visual.” - Saul Bass
“Creativity isn’t worth a thing if it isn’t served with an equal amount of reliability.” - Anton Peck
“Do you think advertisement can sell if nobody can read it? You cannot save souls in an empty church.” - David Ogilvy
“Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem [...]

“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
-Mark Twain

“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.” -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Happy 4th of July.

Don’t get me wrong, my wife uses this font to communicate to her kindergarteners in memos and presentations to parents, and it is appropriate. But this post was one to humor the creative class by author Mike Lacher.
The post was provided on Timothy McSweeney’s website of “Short Imagined Monologues”
ENJOY.

“Paintin’s not important. The important thing is keepin’ busy.”
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
(Unfortunately, this week we’ve just been too crazy busy to think about this blog. The best we could muster is this fab quote from a great American folk artist.)

“Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”
-Jerry Garcia (via Jessica Flynn)

“Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.” - Juan-Carlos Fernàndez

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
- Robert Frost (would’ve turned 136 today…if only)