Quotes About Design

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Design is a response to social change.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.

This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design.

Rooms should be timeless.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.