Quotes About Design

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

Users are not designers.

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.