Quotes About Design

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Everything Christ taught He taught to women as well as men. Indeed, in the restored light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a woman including a young woman, occupies a majesty all her own in the divine design of the Creator.

Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it's decoration.

You are good at something for a reason. God designed you this way, on purpose. It isn't fake or a fluke or small. These are the mind and heart and hands and voice you've been given, so use them.

A heart warmed with zeal for God, and breathing after the salvation of men, will not plead and insist upon rights and privileges in bar to this design. Those manifestly

All of Mother Nature's creatures are designed to fully flourish before they drop dead.

Jameson smiled. It was his slow, dangerous, heady smile, designed to elicit a reaction. I didn't give him one.

Ik had niet zomaar een plan. Ik had Een Plan.

as if it was perfectly reasonable to havea small bowling alley in one's house.

They already realized possibilities that we couldn't see. They heard the music and designed inner worlds out of what they dreamed....

Vatican Palace…because in Venturi's words, 'Less is

I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts.

The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.

When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, or a complex binary application protocol, it is generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes.

To design for compactness and orthogonality, start from zero. Zen teaches that attachment leads to suffering; experience with software design teaches that attachment to unnoticed assumptions leads to non-orthogonality, noncompact designs, and projects that fail or become maintenance nightmares.

created specifically to separate the problem-solving tasks requiring access to a manufacturer's sticky solution information from those requiring access to users' sticky need information. The same basic principle can be illustrated in a less technical context: food design. In this field, manufacturer-based designers have traditionally undertaken the entire job of developing a novel food, and so they have freely blended need-specific design into any or all of the