Design Quotes - Page 21

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

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

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Design is art that people use.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.