Design Quotes - Page 6

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

Good design means as little design as possible.

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.