Design Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours.”
George Santayana
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
Raymond Loewy
Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
B. F. Skinner
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Diane von Furstenberg
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
Michael Behe
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand – not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.
Ivan Chermayeff
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
Donald Wills Douglas
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio Armani
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
Charlie Byrd
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti
The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
Anonymous
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Steve Jobs
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Paul Ran
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
David Lewis
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson
Design is always about synthesis -synthesis of market needs, technology trends, and business needs.
Jim Wicks
Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.
Tim Brown
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.
Douglas Martin
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens
Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains.
Anonymous
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Steve Jobs
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