Design Quotes · Page 29

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

— Naoto Fukasawa

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

— Johanna Drucker

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

— Anonymous

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

— Douglas Wilson

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality

— Albert Hadley

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

— Jenny Packham

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

— Doug Cranmer

The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.

— Ludwig Goransson

“Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and…

— John Piper

Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come…

— Donald A. Norman

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team…

— Nastia Liukin

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it…

— Dennis Ritchie

The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have…

— Don Hertzfeldt

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality…

— Olivier Theyskens

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

— Fritz Zwicky

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the…

— Paul Rand

What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a…

— John C. Wright

My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss…

— Ruth E. Carter

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it…

— Victor Papanek

One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic…

— Milan Kundera

suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look…

— Virginia Graham

We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;…

— Edward Everett

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

— John Maeda

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

— Regis McKenna

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

— Ralph Caplan

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

— Joseph Beach

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

— Dante Ferretti

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

— Dieter Rams

...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

— Josh Quittner

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

— Jamie Zawinski

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

— Verner Panton

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

— Thom Browne

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

— Edward Young

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

— John Dryden

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

— Ron Johnson

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

— Brian Tracy

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

— John Cage