Design Quotes

Everyone loves swag

— A Cool Sign

Designers are not users.

— Jakob Nielsen

Think more design less

— Ellen Lupton

“Simple is complicated.”

— HEDoffice

Your culture is your brand.

— Tony Hsieh

“Ars est celaree artem.”

— Anonymous

Good design is forever.

— Van Day Truex

Rooms should be timeless.

— Sister Parish

I'd love to design a school.

— Nolan Bushnell

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

— Joel Spolsky

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

— Kelly Wearstler

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All design is the process of making experiences.

— Nathan Shedroff

Collaborations are incredibly important in design.

— Jonathan Anderson

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

— Alec Guinness

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

— Erik Spiekermann

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Peter Thiel

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

— Ellen Lupton

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

— Syd Mead

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

— Ralph Lauren

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

— Miguel McKelvey

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

— Jonathan Ive

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

— Vivienne Westwood

I felt my design point of view was more welcomed in New York, that I could show my collections in the way…

— Jenny Packham

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the…

— Lance Loud

If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

— Josh Linkner

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that…

— Edward Tufte

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier…

— Steve Madden

Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can…

— Robert D. Arnott

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place…

— Kevin DeYoung

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it…

— Erik Naggum

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a…

— Charles Gwathmey

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing…

— Harry Crews

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think…

— Ron Eglash

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue…

— Michelle Obama

I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we…

— Cinco Paul

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas…

— Thomas Sowell

“A person is not a closed system, they can never be fully self-sufficient. We need each other because we cannot make everything…

— Frank Chimero

You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use…

— Dorothy Draper