Quotes About Design

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

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

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

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

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

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

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

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

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

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

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

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

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.