Quotes About Design Inspiration

#1. Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

Nate Berkus

#2. I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing' ... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

Laz Alonso

#3. Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Laura Busche

#4. People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they'll relate to you, too.

Laura Busche

#5. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#6. Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Jeanne Gang

#7. Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.

Laura Busche

#8. Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream.

Francois Du Toit

#9. We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

Arthur Erickson

#10. It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

Andy Clark

#11. From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

Brunello Cucinelli

#12. When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

Marc Forster

#13. Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

Laura Busche

#14. MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

Shepard Fairey

#15. I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

Olivier Theyskens

#16. Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Mark Batterson

#17. I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Mies Van De Rohe

#18. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

Tim Brown

#19. Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for.

Laura Busche

#20. It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Greg Lynn

#21. Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

Laura Busche

#22. Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well.

Laura Busche

#23. A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.

John Varvatos

#24. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

Laura Busche

#25. Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

Jessica Walsh

#26. If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

Jim Rohn

#27. 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

#28. I am a book of inspiration and precious design's

Martellis Thurmand

#29. Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.

Laura Busche

#30. For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.

Sarah Ferguson

#31. Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question.

Laura Busche

#32. All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.

Laura Busche

#33. In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.

Laura Busche

#34. So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?

Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.

Laura Busche

#35. To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification

George Lois

#36. If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

Michael Hansmeyer

#37. Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

Michael Langham

#38. Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

Steve Doll

#39. Inspiration starts somewhere.

Bill Gates

#40. Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity - in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

Laura Busche

#41. When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

Christian De Portzamparc

#42. Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something - it creates a talking point.

Chris Arnold

#43. People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

Laura Busche