Design Quotes

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

Websites should look good from the inside and out.

The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them

Design always has a purpose.