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Graphic Design and Architecture
Like an overeager, pimply-faced younger sibling, graphic design is what architecture never wants to be: namely, packaging, ornament, frame, and sign. Architecture says "Experience, Space, Tactility, Drama, Eternity," while graphic design says, "Can I help you? Do I look okay? Buy me. Read me. Eat me. Drink me!"

Lupton, Ellen and J. Abbott Miller, "Critical Way Finding" Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, ed. Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller and DK Holland (New York: Allworth Press, 1997), 201-212.

I thought this was a funny and true quote comparing design and architecture:
Matt Maldre (spudart@aol.com) Monday, December 8, 1998 17:46:59

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