Design Quotes · Page 39

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

— Charlotte Ronson

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

— Johann Johannsson

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

— Kathryn Gustafson

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

— Yves Saint Laurent

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

— Jonathan Ive

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

— Alexa Hirschfeld

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

— Nicholas Negroponte

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large -…

— Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're…

— Adam Conover

Unconventional careers are often feared, because they don't guarantee success or least a job. Hence, parents of most media, art and design…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and…

— John Wells

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did…

— Bill N. Lacy

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for…

— Albert Hadley

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting…

— Doug Aitken

I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.

— John Lasseter

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling…

— Tabatha Coffey

I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way…

— Andrew W.K

I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to…

— Henrik Vibskov

Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed…

— Maurice Wilkes

And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word…

— Eula Biss

What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it…

— John Lennox

There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United…

— Henry Rosovsky

Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what…

— Sean Stone

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

— Jeanne Gang

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

— Robert Edmond Jones

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

— Vivienne Westwood

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

— Jonathan Ive

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.

— Matthew Williamson

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

— Bob Gill

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

— Frederic Goudy

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

— Stephen Gardiner

If you look at WeWork as a brand I think the way we design has a more masculine vibe.

— Miguel McKelvey

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

— Ralph Lauren

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

— Syd Mead

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

— Ellen Lupton

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

— Peter Thiel

“A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

— Jeffery Keedy