Design Quotes

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.

I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.

I love designing dresses and tops.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

So much of design is context.

Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.