Design Quotes

Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.

The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons - to make good design, not become stars.

Your style guide is your most loyal brand protector.

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.

websites should look good from the inside and out

a website without SEO is like a car with no gas

running a business without marketing will kill it

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design.

Let us take you into a deeper experience, make a moment a lasting conveyable memory. Let us help build your tribe.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, 
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

Design a life! Don't maintain it.

Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

Basic geometric shapes communicate universal qualities common to all cultures. Practical design integrates them appropriately.

In geometry, as in nature, the circle is the archetypal shape of wholeness and inclusion. It is an effective shape for nonprofits or community-focused efforts.

Branding is simply pattern recognition, established across multiple tiers of application and fueled by the energy of money.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.