Quotes About Design

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

The designer must think first and work later.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Work for money, design for love.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.