Quotes About Design

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.