Top 100 Designer Quotes
#1. The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.
Albert Hadley
#2. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.
Michael Kors
#3. If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.
Mandy Moore
#4. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design." - Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When
Marc Stickdorn
#5. I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#6. Tie Society, a start-up in Washington, D.C., stocks more than 300 designer ties - each of which, if bought, would cost an arm and a leg. For a monthly fee of $11, subscribers receive a box of sanitized ties to use, and they can change their tie selection monthly.
Jeremy Rifkin
#7. I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.
Mili Avital
#8. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.
Kim Swift
#10. I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
George Lois
#11. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.
Toru Iwatani
#12. I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#13. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
#14. If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
Assata Shakur
#16. I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
Bo Burnham
#17. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834
William Morris
#18. Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads
Rick Poynor
#19. Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.
Donald A. Norman
#20. I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!
Tommy Hilfiger
#21. I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
Dale Chihuly
#22. In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#23. I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Jane McGonigal
#24. Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.
James Paul Gee
#25. Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.
Eva Mozes Kor
#26. If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
Eva Zeisel
#27. I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.
Jourdan Dunn
#28. My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.
Richard Hilfiger
#29. For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
Ted Allen
#30. A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
Charles James
#31. Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
Calvin Klein
#33. No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.
Michael Bierut
#34. I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
Vivienne Westwood
#36. And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.
Neil Gaiman
#37. I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
Jessica Simpson
#38. When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids
Holly Hurd
#39. Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.
Raf Simons
#40. I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.
Melania Trump
#41. Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate.
Guido Palau
#42. If I'm DJing a show, I will normally wear the designer I'm DJing for; if I'm DJing a party, I will most likely be wearing very high heels.
Chelsea Leyland
#43. What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Edith Head
#44. It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.
Lori Loughlin
#45. I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.
Alexandra Stoddard
#46. It's taken me a long time to enjoy shopping. As a plus-size girl, you walk into a store, and it can sometimes be like a designer doesn't know you exist. It's become a fun treasure hunt.
Mary Lambert
#47. Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.
Thomas Haden Church
#48. When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.
David Mazzucchelli
#49. People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and ... It's not like that.
Dries Van Noten
#50. You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.
Kesha
#51. Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.
Donald A. Norman
#52. The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
Eva Zeisel
#53. As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.
Thom Browne
#54. Loss is a peculiar thing. It drives creativity, and it fuels the dark emotions that inspire a designer or writer or musician to bring forth a creative child whole-cloth. It is loss that compels creativity.
R.B. Chesterton
#56. My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.
Platon
#57. If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer
Tommy Hilfiger
#58. The designer must think first and work later.
Will Burtin
#59. When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
Olivier Theyskens
#60. Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Steve Wozniak
#61. I want to find a designer that can represent me. I want to find a celebrity that reflects me.
So far I've been dressing in cotton-polyester blends.
It's what Jerffrey Dahmer wore.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#62. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#63. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.
Nina Jacobson
#64. I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.
Lee Strobel
#65. You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.
Donna Karan
#66. I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.
Brenda Brathwaite
#68. Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.
Oscar De La Renta
#69. To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.
Guido Palau
#70. Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
Laura Mvula
#71. It was so unfair. Like the exorbitant cost of designer shoes. Or world hunger.
Jeaniene Frost
#72. beware the "slash" - a job listing that advertises for a UX/UI designer betrays a lack of appreciation for the value of UX, and suggests that the organisation is probably actually looking for a UI designer.
Matthew Magain
#73. LOVE IS LIKE A DESIGNER FASHION, ENJOY IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT. LET IT GO WHEN IT IS GONE BECAUSE A NEW ONE WILL COME.
Linda Alfiori
#74. I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
Adam Lambert
#75. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
#76. Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic ... could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.
Steven Weinberg
#77. I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.
Valentino Rossi
#78. Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy
Tim Brown
#79. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
#80. As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.
Charlie Kimball
#81. In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.
Rick Heinrichs
#82. I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.
Catherine Malandrino
#83. A city sparkles in the night
How can it glow so bright?
The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
Designer skyline in my head
Abstract and still well-read
You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead
Owl City
#85. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.
Erin Wasson
#86. I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
Wayne White
#87. My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
Marjane Satrapi
#88. I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.
Milton Glaser
#89. But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
Samantha Mumba
#90. I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#91. I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.
Riccardo Tisci
#92. Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.
Portia De Rossi
#93. Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.
Marty Neumeier
#94. Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.
Ralph Lauren
#95. I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose.
Jane Green
#96. The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
John E. Jones III
#97. I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.
Dita Von Teese
#98. I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!
Christian Louboutin
#99. Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.
Niklaus Wirth
#100. I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
Raymond Loewy
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