Design Quotes · Page 29

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

— Eric Gill

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

— Kenji Ekuan

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

— Michael Arad

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

— John Maeda

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

— Dries van Noten

I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.

— Russel Wright

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

— Victor Papanek

I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.

— Nicole Maines

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to…

— David Carson

Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above…

— Kevin Rose

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has…

— Marc Newson

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into…

— Howard Rheingold

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according…

— Elsie de Wolfe

I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's…

— Richard Saul Wurman

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,…

— Friedrich Schiller

The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance…

— Sim Van der Ryn

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years…

— Martin Filler

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result…

— Carroll Shelby

At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they…

— Roger Staubach

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.…

— Richard Baxter

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These…

— Kent Beck

Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not

— David Airey

The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.

— John McAslan

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

— Liya Kebede

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

— Hartmut Esslinger

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

— Jaime Pressly

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

— Seth Godin

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

— Debbie Millman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

— Anonymous

“Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.”

— Jeffrey Zeldman

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

— Anonymous

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

— Andrew Wyeth

The architecture in Florence is light years ahead of anywhere I've ever been in terms of beauty and design.

— Evan Mock

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

— Brian Foote

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.

— Fred Foster