Design Quotes

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

The good is not a category that interests me.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Everything that we design is designing us back

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

Design is a response to social change.