Quotes About Design

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Space is the breath of art.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.