The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point size, but things like the size of the lower case letters as a proportion of the overall letter height, and line length. People simply can't read really small type set in really long lines.

Everyone can have an opinion on a logo.

If you can announce the Higgs Boson in Comic Sans, clearly anybody can do anything.

It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.