Design Quotes - Page 4

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesn’t have to be one style. We’re not talking about style, we’re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

Great design is serious, not solemn

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.