Design Quotes - Page 8

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Work your ass off. Don't be an asshole.

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

Design is a response to social change.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.