Design Quotes · Page 27

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

— Jane Jacobs

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

— Charles Bukowski

Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

— Dries van Noten

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

— Ai Weiwei

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

— Chip Kidd

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

— Michael Abrash

I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It…

— Marcel Wanders

I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for…

— Sean Lennon

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

— Neil Gershenfeld

We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias…

— Kate Crawford

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is…

— Martin Filler

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of…

— Paola Antonelli

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to…

— Alec Issigonis

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing…

— Indra Nooyi

I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation…

— Julie Plec

I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something…

— Cornelia Parker

The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel…

— Walt Disney

I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer…

— Nicola Formichetti

We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation…

— Tim Brown

“I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my…

— Richard Saul Wurman

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the…

— Anonymous

If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or…

— Anne Royall

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

— Jonathan Ive

I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs.

— Stella McCartney

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

— Jonathan Ive

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

— Jack Kerouac

We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.

— Julian Treasure

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

— Ben Nicholson

The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

— Eric Gill

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

— William Morris

The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.

— Tom Peters

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

— Alexander McQueen

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

— Emil Ruder

The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

— Dave Winer

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

— Jessica Walsh

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

— Ferran Adria