Design Quotes · Page 49

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

— Sepp Holzer

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

— Adrian Forty

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,

— Edward Tufte

I want to write, produce, act, and get into fashion design.

— Tonya Mitchell

Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.

— Angela Ahrendts

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

— Ross Perot

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

— Zaha Hadid

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

— Michael Hansmeyer

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to…

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match…

— Mary J. Blige

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent,…

— Hedi Slimane

My hair is different than a lot of people's. I like my hair. I like the fade. I like the little design…

— Trae Young

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing…

— Harley Earl

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

— John Holdren

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most…

— Stephen Bayley

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale…

— Suzanne Collins

Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a…

— Shirley Hibberd

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store…

— Nate Berkus

I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology.…

— Stella McCartney

Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the…

— Cassandra Clare

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and…

— Greg Lynn

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot…

— Stephen King

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough…

— Norman Mailer

“Quant was the first designer to design for her generation—and she was great at it. She didn’t care about making money; she…

— Ann Shen

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

— Otl Aicher

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

— Robert Bringhurst

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

— Anonymous

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

— Lando Norris

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is…

— Nils Bohlin

Shah Rukh is very talented with design, and he is extremely creative.

— Gauri Khan

I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

— Nick D'Aloisio

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

— Edward de Bono

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

— Dionne Bromfield

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

— Anne Lamott

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

— Porter Robinson

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

— Paula Scher

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

— Anonymous

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

— Vera Wang

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

— Andy Hargreaves

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

— Elsa Schiaparelli