Design Quotes

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

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

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

To touch somebody’s heart with design.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

When it does not exist, design it.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.

When the image is new, the world is new.

The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Everything is design. Everything!

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Design has to work. Art does not.

Stumbling is not falling.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.