Design Quotes · Page 29

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

— Henry Petroski

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

— Kari Skogland

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

— Jennifer Morla

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

— David Chipperfield

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

— Allen Ginsberg

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

— Thomas Heatherwick

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

— Pierre Bonnard

The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and…

— Douglas Rushkoff

But design has never been a Europe-only project. The best of design has global influences. And we've got to design the future…

— Matt Hancock

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty,…

— Gustav Stickley

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about…

— Grigor Dimitrov

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists…

— Dave Barry

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

— Neville Brody

My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor…

— Jeremiah Brent

“In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.”

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a…

— John Updike

One thing that is very different technically is that you don't get a lot of coverage in television. Not like you do…

— Len Wiseman

Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at…

— Karen Kingsbury

Collectively with my design team we spent time working on the feel, fit and style to ensure the product is not only…

— David Beckham

Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not…

— Neal A. Maxwell

When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain.…

— Kent Nerburn

Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity…

— John Berger

I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there…

— Fred Foster

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

— Jonathan Ive

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

— Erma Bombeck

“Design simply today, knowing you can add complexity needed tomorrow.”

— Anonymous

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

— William A. Dembski

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

— Debi Thomas

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

— Piet Zwart

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

— Anonymous

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

— Steven Johnson

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

— David Hockney

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

— Caldwell Esselstyn

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love…

— Jenny Packham

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

— Frank Gehry

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

— Debbie Millman

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

— Paolo Gentiloni

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

— Steve McConnell

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

— Marc Chandler