Quotes About Design

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.

A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.

Information architecture (IA) is a design discipline that is focused on making information findable and understandable. Because of this, it is uniquely well suited to address these challenges. IA allows us to think about problems through two important perspectives: that information products and services are perceived by people as places made of information, and that these information environments can be organized for optimum findability and understandability.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Form follows function.

tongue-in-groove walls

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes -- they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

Home is where you hang your architect.

In short, human intelligent design (pun intended) should play a major role in shaping the future of our interactions with each other, with forthcoming technological artefacts, and with the infosphere we share among us and with them. After all, it is a sign of intelligence to make stupidity work for you.

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

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

this book is designed for you. Gaining proficiency will require a careful examination of the chapters that follow, plus a commitment to spend some serious time and energy learning and applying Joe's teachings in your daily routines.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

retractable roof, a pair of black, white and red

The first was that the creative architects knew how to play.

The second was that the creative architects always deferred making decisions for as long as they were allowed.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

One thing we cannot do is go into our past and erase it. We do have Power over Our Future. Live it how You Design it. It's Your world...

It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.