Design Quotes - Page 2

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it needed to exist, it therefore created itself. His conclusion merely restates his premise, which means his argument is circular. Nonsense is nonsense, even when spoken by famous scientists.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

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.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.