Design Quotes

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

Beware of advice-even this.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

Typography exists to honor content.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Design in India is as important as Make in India.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.