Top 100 For Design Quotes
#1. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design." - Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When
Marc Stickdorn
#2. 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
#3. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.
Laura Busche
#4. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Jonathan Barnbrook
#5. By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.
Greg Lynn
#6. If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.
David Benioff
#7. The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
C.S. Lewis
#8. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
Ellen Lupton
#9. 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
#11. I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.
Kevin McCloud
#12. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.
Kent Ingle
#13. The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.
Matthew Humphreys
#14. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Dave Barry
#15. I could design an $800 shoe line; it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.
Steve Madden
#16. Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
Lance Armstrong
#17. For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
James Rouse
#18. We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown
#19. The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.
Paco Rabanne
#20. For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
James Wan
#21. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
John Owen
#22. I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
Christian Louboutin
#23. I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
Quinn Shephard
#24. I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod.
Walter Isaacson
#25. So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
Marc Newson
#26. 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
#27. For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.
Tory Burch
#28. Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
Ralph Caplan
#29. Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.
Greg Anderson
#30. In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Donald Norman
#31. Probably not true, but remember this: someone really did design the Titanic and then label it unsinkable. For
Stephen King
#32. Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.
John Carmack
#33. Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
Donatella Versace
#34. I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement ...
Thomas Nagel
#35. The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.
Dennis Prager
#36. And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
John Dryden
#37. In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
Douglas Wilson
#38. Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.
Jessica Walsh
#39. For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up of generally smaller businesses than fashion. The human losses were more quickly noticed.
Michael Shnayerson
#40. 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
#41. That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
Margaret Millar
#42. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
#43. Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.
Gary Larson
#44. I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.
Douglas Wilson
#45. I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work- or something outside of work.
Sarah Lafleur
#46. Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
Ellen DeGeneres
#47. Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point.
The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.
Aleister Crowley
#48. I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.
Jessica Hische
#49. I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
Bruce Oldfield
#50. There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.
David Hillis
#51. Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.
Edward Tufte
#52. Importance of Interior Designers in Dubai for Designing Your Homes and Offices
FurnitureinFashion
#53. The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
Iain McGilchrist
#54. You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
Dieter Rams
#55. I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.
Joe Jonas
#56. Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.
Virginia Woolf
#57. By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
David Platt
#58. Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.
Ron Miriello
#59. In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.
Sherry Turkle
#60. The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
Ted Chiang
#61. and three more for special "assignments." Nathanial provided long stiletto knives for the special training. The narrow knives were all black with thin blades that went straight to a point and sharp edges on both sides. They were design for one purpose, killing.
D.M. Stoddard
#63. My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#64. 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
#65. I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents ... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
#66. 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
#67. The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Oscar Wilde
#68. Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.
Peleg Top
#69. I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Brenda Laurel
#70. I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right.
Stella McCartney
#71. I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.
Prabal Gurung
#72. Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.
Baris Gencel
#73. Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Elon Musk
#74. With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#75. US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.
Mary Roach
#76. Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
M.I.A.
#77. Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#78. I always wanted to design for films.
Ken Adam
#79. The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Kenneth R. Miller
#80. So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
Robert Rauschenberg
#81. Since Tezuka animated for Disney and was influenced by their animation and that of Max Fleischer. Tezuka's design was reminiscent of the Disney style of that era, but the nose was made smaller and the eyes slightly bigger, to show more emotion.
AlphaManga
#82. It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.
Marcel Wanders
#83. Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.
Miuccia Prada
#84. 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.
Albert Hadley
#85. When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.
Jay Inslee
#86. After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.
Marshall Curry
#87. The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
Marty Neumeier
#88. There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.
Ivan Chermayeff
#89. Never mistake legibility for communication.
David Carson
#90. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#91. Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
James Blake
#92. Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that both is tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration. That is not easily explained, and raises the natural question of why it is that way.
Stephen Hawking
#93. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.
Moshe Safdie
#94. Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.
Harold Wilson
#95. There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
Benjamin Carson
#96. Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?
Hideaki Sena
#97. I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.
Stefan Sagmeister
#98. For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.
Philippe Starck
#99. I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.
Russel Wright
#100. Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
Linus Torvalds
