Quotes About Design

I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?