Quotes About Design

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

Design has to work. Art does not.