Design Quotes
The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.
If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.
If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.
It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.
Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.