Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn “x”. (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn’t vn kn whr th vwls r)

Title: Steven Pinker

Graphic Design: Ki-chul Song (Hangeul Poster Series)

I shop therefore I am.

Text: Barbara Kruger

Book Cover Design: Studio8 Design

Follow. But, follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

Text: Monty Python (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Book Cover Designs: Daniel Mroz (via 50 Watts)

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Text: Bill Bryson

Graphic Design: Alexander Girard (Braniff Airlines Playing Cards 1968)

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Text: William Shakespeare

Posters: Leeds Theatre Poster Archives

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art… Without symbols, and the ability to understand them, there would be no writing, no numbers, no drama, no art.

Text: Michael Roller (via The Knot Collective)

Magazine Cover Art: Bomb Magazine

The need for mystery is greater than the need for answers.

Text: Ken Kesey

Book Covers: J. P. Kruseman

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Text: Charles Eames

Graphic Design: Emil Ruder

Our vocabularies and manners of expression are endlessly variable and operate in meaning systems that, unlike the basic rule structures, are culturally produced. In this respect, the field of natural languages resembles the field of art considered cross-culturally: both exhibit an interplay between, on the one hand, deep, innate structures and mechanisms of intellectual and emotional life and, on the other hand, a vast ocean of historically contingent cultural material - the styles, vocabularies, and idiosyncrasies that give both language use and art their individual cultural and personal meaning.

Text: Dennis Dutton (The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution)

Poster Design: Mike Lemanski