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)

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

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

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like so many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Text: Paul Saffo

Posters: Milton Glaser

There’s a point when you’re done simplifying. Otherwise, things get really complicated.

Text: Frank Chimero

Poster Design: Hexagonall

Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair. I wanted to say that it’s not America they’re aping, it’s the Japan of their parents that they are rejecting. And since there’s no home-grown counter culture, they just take hold of the nearest one to hand, which happens to be American. But it’s not American culture exploiting us. It’s us exploiting it.

Text: David Mitchell (Ghostwritten)

Posters: Tadanori Yokoo