Design Quotes

Math is easy; design is hard.

Good design is good business.

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

The strongest logos tell simple stories.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture  -  especially the innovation culture  -  of a company.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

Do things that matter, things that will make those better, and things that will make you better.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time