Quotes About Design

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

So much of design is context.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

When typography is on point, words become images.

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.