Design Quotes - Page 24

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.”

Design is too important to be left to designers.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

You cannot not communicate.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.