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Quotes About Design

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.
~ Donald A. Norman
Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.
~ Hod Lipson
Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
~ John Maeda
I consider myself a digital artist, so what I'll do is create everything with technology.
~ Kesh
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
~ Yves Behar
The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.
~ Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
~ George Lucas
I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris, ' one of the greatest games ever made.
~ Tim Schafer
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
~ Zaha Hadid
I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
~ Massimo Vignelli
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible
~ Tadao Ando
Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.
~ Charlotte Moss
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.
~ Jakob Nielsen
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
~ Anna Sui
Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.
~ Rick Poynor
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
~ Achille Castiglioni
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
~ Louis Kahn
Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
~ Edward Tufte
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
~ Tadao Ando
If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.
~ Peter Eisenman
I think that it's a great time to be a designer.
~ Paula Scher