Design Quotes - Page 47

There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.

I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design "norm"that I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.

Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.

Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.