Quotes About Design

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.