Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
Ellen LuptonUniversal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
Ellen LuptonDesign is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
Ellen LuptonAre some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
Ellen LuptonDesigners provide ways intoโand out ofโthe flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of designโs most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
Ellen Lupton