Design Quotes · Page 62

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

— David Linley

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

— Bruce Mau

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

— Pope John Paul II

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

— Massimo Vignelli

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

— L'Wren Scott

In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical.

— Donald A. Norman

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

— Hillman Curtis

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

— Tom Peters

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

— Donald A. Norman

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to…

— Stanley Morison

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think…

— Marc Newson

Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that…

— Andy Serkis

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

— David Rockwell

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.'…

— Ralph Lauren

Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been…

— Daniel Buren

I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where…

— Rebecca Solnit

Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and I get excited talking about making record artwork or working with T-shirt designs. The least exciting…

— Eddie Vedder

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers.…

— Indra Nooyi

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover…

— Paul Rand

“Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something…

— Nick Harkaway

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal…

— Peter London

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

— Charlie Byrd

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

— Red Adair

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

— Eliel Saarinen

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

— Khloe Kardashian

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

— Larry Page

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

— Douglas Trumbull

I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.

— Ron Ben-Israel

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

— Antonin Scalia

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

— Thom Mayne

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

— Geoffrey Beene

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

— George W. Bush

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

— Genevieve Gorder

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

— Paloma Picasso

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

— Seth Godin