Design Quotes - Page 46

Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact that it's a flower. It's more about what that repetitive motif implies.

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.