Design Quotes

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

Design really can be anything.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

Style is to forget all styles.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

Humor is all about timing.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

All typefaces are historical.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.