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Quotes About Design

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.
~ Hedi Slimane
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.
~ Walter J. Phillips
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
~ Melinda Gates
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
~ Niklaus Wirth
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
~ Jeff Smith
Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.
~ Norio Ohga
The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
~ Jonathan Ive
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.
~ Joseph Addison
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.
~ Josh Linkner
I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.
~ Michael Hansmeyer
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.
~ Larry Fessenden
Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.
~ Kenyon Cox
In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.
~ Thomas A. Stewart
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter
~ Kenzo Tange
Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
~ Bill Gates
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.
~ Donald A. Norman
I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.
~ Steven Seagal
Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
~ Frank Gehry
A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.
~ Fred Brooks
Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.
~ Unknown
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
~ Unknown
the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.
~ Phil Hine