Design Quotes · Page 39

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

— Neville Brody

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

— Michael Hansmeyer

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

— Chris Kirkpatrick

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

— Tom Turner

I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video…

— Demetri Martin

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.

— Ginevra Elkann

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

— Gary Ross

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part…

— Norm Dicks

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the…

— Maya Angelou

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and…

— Mick Ebeling

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal…

— Jacque Fresco

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

— Anonymous

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to…

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

— Niklaus Wirth

We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference…

— Rutger Bregman

I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There…

— David Trubridge

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country…

— Marc Newson

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led…

— Empedocles

The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little…

— Glenn McQuaid

Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In…

— Stan Lee

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.

— John Rocha

“Businesspeople don’t just need to understand designers better; they need to become designers.”

— Alexander Osterwalder

Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.

— Wolfgang Weingart

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

— Simon Campbell

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

— Joe Gebbia

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

— Serena Williams

“Design means how something works, not how it looks – the design should evolve from the function. —James Dyson”

— John Morgan

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

— Jeremiah Brent

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

— Vita Sackville-West

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

— Larry McVoy

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

— Jenny Packham

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

— James Dyson

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

— Alexander Markovich Polyakov

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

— Gauri Khan

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

— Hedi Slimane

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

— Ben Goldacre