Design Quotes

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails.

My favorite project is always the next one.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design.

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Copy and paste is a design error.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.