Design Quotes and Sayings

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
Erik Adigard

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
David Hockney

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

Today industrial design has put murder on a mass-production basis.
Victor Papanek

Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer

Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey

Design is the easiest way to reenergize a product.
Fast Company

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
Dennis Conner

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
Vivienne Westwood

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
T.S. Eliot

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Tim Berners-Lee

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Christopher Alexander

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
Thomas Watson Jr

Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Good design is the most important way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors.
Yun Jong Yong

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Eliel Saarinen

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

Simple design, intense content.
Edward Tufte

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Art will make our streets as beautiful as the woods, as elevating as the mountain-side: it will be a pleasure and a rest, and not a weight upon the spirits to come from the open country into a town. Every man’s house will be fair and decent, soothing to his mind and helpful to his work.
William Morris

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
Steve Albini

Design is important, it’s an important dimension in the car. It’s not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn