Design Quotes - Page 5

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

You are what you are seen to be.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.