50 plus 1 Design Rules (for any designers)

1. Good designers copy, great designers steal
2. Make it pretty
3. Fashion is made to become unfashionable
4. Design is thinking made visual
5. A camel is a horse designed by a committee
6. Never use more than two typefaces
7. Style is not to be trusted
8. Good design solves the right problem
9. Design is not art
10. Minimalism is dead
11. Never use copy and paste
12. Make it new
13. Never photograph people eating
14. Always make the top left-hand logo of the website a home button
15. K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
16. Don't over accessorize
17. Use a grid
18. A picture is worth a thousand words
19. Never stretch a font
20. Practice makes perfect
21. Form follows function
22. The logo must be recognizable
23. If you don't know what to do... just do it big and red
24. It is better to be good than to be original
25. Fashion can be bought, style one must be posses
26. Helvetica always works
27. Cleavage or legs, never both
28. Good design communicates
29. Dress to impress
30. Never work with animals or children
31. Never use white type on a black background
32. Make the logo bigger
33. Leave it to the last minute
34. God is in the details
35. Think outside the box
36. Kill your darlings
37. Never sacrifices style for comfort
38. Design is evolutionary, turn mistakes and accidents into opportunities
39. The medium is the message
40. The client is always right
41. Shoes and bags must always match
42. Turn it upside down
43. Trust no one. All clients are bastard. Eat more fish
44. Less is more
45. Good design is for life
46. Know your audiences
47. If your image does not work, put a dog in it. If still doesn't work, put a bandage on the dog.
48. Don't let bad design hurt great content
49. [ insert buzzword ] is the new black
50. Dress your age, not your shoe or waist size
51. BREAK THE RULES
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