Design Quotes
We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.
Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.
When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.
The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.
I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.
It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.
Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.
Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.
A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.