Design Quotes · Page 32

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

— Amber Valletta

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

— William A. Dembski

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

— Lillian B. Rubin

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

— Trent Reznor

To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.

— Albert Hadley

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

— Saul Griffith

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

— Sohrab Vossoughi

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

— Paul Klee

To go to L.A. and be on the Addams Family set? It was beautiful production design and an illustrious set. I'm focused…

— David Krumholtz

I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform…

— Tina Fey

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is…

— Alexander Wang

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

— Ai Weiwei

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern…

— Thomas Paine

When I design, I always design around denim. I think of designing as a lifestyle. I design for that career oriented girl…

— Whitney Port

Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain…

— Valentino Garavani

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into…

— E. J. Hughes

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers…

— Steve Jobs

Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with…

— James A. Owen

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at…

— Graeme Base

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question…

— Bobby Jones

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit…

— Hermann Hesse

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept…

— Chetan Bhagat

When I encounter a problem - something that's not quite right with a product - I enjoy breaking it down in my…

— Tony Fadell

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation,…

— Anonymous

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

— Jonathan Ive

“A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38)”

— Woodrow Phoenix

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

— Marco Casagrande

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

— Ettore Sottsass

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

— Marc Newson

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

— William Morris

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

— Michael Behe

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

— Philip Treacy

A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.

— Jan Carlzon

“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.”

— Donald A. Norman

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

— Oleg Cassini

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

— Bruce Oldfield

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

— Jonathan Ive