Design Quotes

Design Quote of the day

Make it like a sunflower.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.