Design Quotes · Page 48

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

— Freeman Thomas

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

— Lauren Hutton

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

— John Maeda

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

— Anonymous

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

— Edward Tufte

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

— Victor Papanek

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to…

— Yigal Azrouel

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

— Edward Tufte

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live…

— Ralph Lauren

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I…

— Philippe Starck

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here…

— Catherine McAuley

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want…

— M.I.A

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

— Bill Moggridge

If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were…

— Marcel Wanders

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

— Erik Prince

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

— Van Day Truex

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's…

— Adam Savage

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -…

— Ivan Chermayeff

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according…

— Dwight L. Moody

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is…

— Anonymous

If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not…

— Paul Morrissey

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of…

— Christopher Jackson

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil…

— Bill Mollison

“Live Your Life By Design, Rather Than From Crisis to Crisis!”

— Carla Ferrer

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

— Yves Behar

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

— Mark Parker

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

— Neri Oxman

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the…

— Paula Scher

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

— Jonathan Ive

It was a wonderful experience to design the Pride of Cows limited-edition bottle.

— Gauri Khan

I used to design my Barbie dolls' clothes. I used to be doing hair.

— Sexyy Red

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

— Charles Eames

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

— Samuel Richardson

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

— Frank Gehry

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

— Ed Paschke

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

— I. M. Pei

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

— Alan Cooper

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

— Kelly Wearstler