Design Quotes - Page 29

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.