Design Quotes - Page 3

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

Design is thinking made visual.

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

There is no better designer than nature

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

To create, one must first question everything.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.