Design Clients Quotes

#1. Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.

Bill Cahan

#2. Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

Kelly Wearstler

#3. I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

Colleen Atwood

#4. There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.

Jason Wu

#5. If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Michael Bierut

#6. I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

William McDonough

#7. It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

Ellen Lupton

#8. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

Enver Hoxha

#9. I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Ross Lovegrove

#10. I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

Nia Long

#12. I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

Michael Graves

#13. Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Katherine McCoy

#14. At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.

Roger Staubach

#15. Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Peter Kreeft

#16. It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.

Robbie Ross

#17. I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.

Jessica Hische

#18. Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Raymond Loewy

#19. Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not.

Niki Tsongas

#20. The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

Regina Doman

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

Henry Dreyfuss

#22. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;
and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

Rudy VanderLans

#24. And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

Kurt Loder

#25. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

Jessica Hische

#26. When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

Yves Behar

#27. I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

Geddy Lee

#28. To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us
in freedom and with no strings attached
is a way to grant others a liberating gift.

Mark Galli

#29. I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

Albert Hadley

#30. Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

Jeff Fisher

#31. As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#32. Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design collaboration between a talented architect and an enlightened, motivated client.

Roger K. Lewis

#33. Formal education will earn you a living. Self-education will earn you a fortune." Jim Rohn

Joanna Penn

#34. Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

Ivan Chermayeff

#35. Book the First - Recalled to Life

Charles Dickens

#36. Web design is something that's super technical but can be super tedious if you have to deal with asshole clients.

Jessica Hische

#37. I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?

Erik Spiekermann

#38. The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

Syd Mead