Good design Quotes · Page 2

Good design is good business.

— Anonymous

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

— Pablo Picasso

Good design is forever.

— Van Day Truex

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

— Paul Rand

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

Good design is honest.

— Dieter Rams

Good design is serious business.

— Alan G. Lafley

Good design means as little design as possible.

— Dieter Rams

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

— Wim Crouwel

“aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.”

— Noah Kerner

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

— Edward Tufte

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

— Sailor Jerry

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

— Stephen Gardiner

The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.

— Peter Marino

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

— Stephen Gardiner

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is…

— Anonymous

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

— Brenda Laurel

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

— Steve Jobs

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

— David Linley

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

— Chuck Green

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in…

— Susan Orlean

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

— Van Day Truex

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic…

— Millard Sheets

My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic,…

— Tim Gunn

The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in…

— Van Day Truex

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations…

— George Nelson

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that…

— Tibor Kalman

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a…

— Paola Antonelli

I've always wanted my work to be more available. I had this vision when I was younger of wanting to replace all…

— Robert Lee Morris

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure…

— William Drenttel

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between…

— Ted Nelson

People say graphic design is so different now, because you have so many more pixels and colors to work with... But when…

— Susan Kare

The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured…

— Leo Lionni

“who got an MBA after starting as a PM at Microsoft, decided to go to business school when he noticed that well-designed…

— Gayle Laakmann McDowell

A good designer will actually design the company.

— Donald A. Norman

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

— Tibor Kalman

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

— Anonymous

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

— Spider Robinson

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

— Massimo Vignelli