Design Quotes

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Never design anything that cannot be made.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

The followers of intelligent design should openly and clearly declare the existence of Allah as the Creator.

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

Good design is not an applied veneer.

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.”

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

Design is too important to be left to designers.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.