Quotes About Innovation

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

Design is thinking made visual.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

To create, one must first question everything.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

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

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

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

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

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

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Design is a response to social change.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

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