Design Quotes

Make it like a sunflower.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.