Design Quotes · Page 34

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

— Eliel Saarinen

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

— Khloe Kardashian

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

— Larry Page

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

— Douglas Trumbull

I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.

— Ron Ben-Israel

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

— Thom Mayne

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

— Antonin Scalia

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available…

— Anonymous

It was Yves Saint Laurent who realised the high-end design houses could make a lot more money if they sold more accessible…

— Dawn O'Porter

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is,…

— Drew Carey

A beautiful design alone cant transform a dark unhappy life into a joyful one. The purpose of a beautiful design is to…

— Anonymous

Valentino lives his life like the Queen of England - he lives in the bubble. But he designs for royals, so it's…

— Matt Tyrnauer

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must…

— Albert Einstein

Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's…

— Nancy Lancaster

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of…

— Lou Engle

...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to…

— Sister Parish

Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix…

— Jef Raskin

Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not…

— Agatha Christie

I have to say the thing that I want to do so badly is design a line. I still don't know exactly…

— Crystal Renn

The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever…

— Scott Turow

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me…

— Coco Chanel

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

— Geoffrey Beene

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

— George W. Bush

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

— Christian Louboutin

I was actually a communications major and had never done design.

— Joanna Gaines

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

— Plato

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

— Donald Berwick

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

— Erno Rubik

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

— Brian Tracy

I Think the biggest design project anyone can have is their own life.

— Nix

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

— Roger Martin

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

— Friedrich August von Hayek

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

— Sugata Mitra

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

— Ted Naifeh

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

— Ettore Sottsass