- There is saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for
one thing, and that's all you'll ever find'
- Robert Flaherty - The link between success and design has never been stronger. Britain's fastest
growing companies are using design to drive their businesses forward
- The Design Council - You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension.
That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes
- D.H. Lawrence - I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free
- Michelangelo - Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process
that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business
- Clement Mok - The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a
product and service is a designer's most valuable asset
- Primo Angeli - Design is the method of putting form and content together…
Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated
- Paul Rand - Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It's a mix
of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy
- Erik Adigard - 80% of design-led businesses have opened up in new markets in the last
3 years whereas only 42% of UK businesses overall have done so
- The Design Council - Graphic design is the paradise of individuality,
eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours
- George Santayana - Design Council research has found that every £100 a business
spends on design increases turnover by £225
- The Design Council - Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes
from collaboration and from trusting your intuition
- Freeman Thomas - Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way
as best to accomplish a particular purpose
- Charles Eames - Design means being good, not just looking good
- Clement Mok - 83% of companies in which design is integral have seen their
market share increase, compared to the UK average of 47%
- The Design Council - Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius… to move in the opposite direction
- Albert Einstein - Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in
relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish
- Ivan Chermayeff - A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
- Douglas Adams - Designers can create normality out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas
through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures
- Jeffery Veen - Two-thirds of companies who ignore design have to compete mainly on price. In companies where design is integral, just one-third compete mostly on price
- The Design Council - It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say,
'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'
- Morris Hite
About us
Simon Saunders Design is a professional and creative graphic design business based in a purpose build studio just south of Frome in rural Somerset.
With a shrewd eye for detail and an understanding of how our expertise complements clients’ wider marketing objectives, we offer the complete range of services needed to create distinctive and eye-catching design. We’re specialists at combining pictures, imagery and words into striking artwork that can be used for sales, publicity or education. We are used to working closely alongside marketing teams to achieve our clients’ goals.
We’re proud of our hard-working, down to earth approach and thrive on delivering beyond our clients’ expectations whether the brief is funky, functional, quaint or quirky. We flourish on thinking creatively and offering exemplary service and as such enjoy long term working relationships with both regional and national clients.
