Top 74 Best Designers Quotes
#1. Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.
Jakob Nielsen
#2. Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.
Fred Brooks
#3. I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#4. The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.
Jared Spool
#5. I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.
Joe Johnston
#6. The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.
Erich Gamma
#7. The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made.
Jason Fried
#8. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.
Marc Jacobs
#9. I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.
Twiggy
#10. But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
Samantha Mumba
#11. I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.
Claudia Schiffer
#12. I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.
Johanna Drucker
#13. We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.
Miuccia Prada
#14. I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
Seth Green
#15. My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.
Beverly Johnson
#16. I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
Chanel Iman
#17. By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
P. J. Plauger
#18. Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.
Dylan Lauren
#19. I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
Pam Grier
#20. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.
Donald A. Norman
#21. Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.
Hartmut Esslinger
#22. Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.
Annalee Newitz
#23. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.
Paul Graham
#24. Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.
Mike Davidson
#25. Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.
Marty Neumeier
#26. Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,
Tony Evans
#27. The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
Marty Neumeier
#28. To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
Gary Wolf
#29. I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's their job and their money. In a way, I had the best makeup artists, hairdressers, and art designers in the world.
Michael Glawogger
#30. Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
Paola Antonelli
#31. I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.
Laetitia Casta
#32. Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
Ellen Lupton
#33. You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.
Susan Stroman
#34. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan Kay
#35. Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
Fred Brooks
#36. When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
Chad Hurley
#37. I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.
Mariam Naficy
#38. I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.
Adam Rapp
#39. Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don't fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I've ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.
Daniel Burka
#40. We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
Anthony Lewis
#41. Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.
Henry Dreyfuss
#43. We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#44. Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks.
Gisele Bundchen
#45. I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.
Jeremy Scott
#46. I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#47. A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
Alan Cooper
#48. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Paul Saffo
#49. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.
Tom Turner
#50. Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.
Brad Goreski
#51. The Minted mission is to be a community that supports designers from all over the world and provides them with an opportunity to be discovered and build their careers.
Mariam Naficy
#52. Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#53. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
Bjork
#54. And which new designers are most likely to have the right habits? The ones who have formed the right truces and found the right alliances. Truces are so important that new fashion labels usually succeed only if they are headed by people who left other fashion companies on good terms.
Charles Duhigg
#55. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.
Edwin Schlossberg
#56. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Jonathan Barnbrook
#57. Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.
Jonathan Ive
#58. My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
Anne Robinson
#59. Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.
Oscar De La Renta
#60. Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
Ozwald Boateng
#61. Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.
Linda Evangelista
#62. The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
Kate Reardon
#63. Importance of Interior Designers in Dubai for Designing Your Homes and Offices
FurnitureinFashion
#64. Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
Edith Head
#65. With 'Suffragette,' I was emboldened that there were so many women around me. We had a female writer, producers, production and costume designers.
Sarah Gavron
#66. What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.
Kellan Lutz
#67. If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#69. Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
Ralph Caplan
#70. The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.
Giambattista Valli
#71. The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.
James Spithill
#72. That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
Eric Carle
#73. It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
Natalie Massenet
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