Quotes About Design

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the 'core aspect of the design'

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.