The Designer Says is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history’s leading practitioners. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party, a designer from the nineteenth century might sit next to one working today or two contemporary designers may strike up a conversation. This portable collection makes the perfect gift for designers, students, and anyone curious about the ideas and personalities that have shaped the art of visual communication.
I purchased this book as a motivation tool for myself and my design team. Although it includes a retrospective form famous designers throughout design history (skewing more print design than anything), many of the challenges designers face today are represented. The quotes are kept general enough that they could easily apply to situations that UX/UI designers run into on the web just as much as with publication designers in the print world. To really make this an outstanding value (a 5…