Design Quotes - Page 52

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

I try to think and design in color.

In every interior my firm and I design, we are always reaching for vintage pieces, and materials that feel classic and timeless. It's how I feel about fashion as well, and definitely one of the intentions I had when designing the layette collection. I'm not a fan of trends.

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Style is to forget all styles.