Design Quotes · Page 35

“The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”

— Anonymous

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

— Marc Newson

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

— Tim Brown

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

— Ben Goldacre

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

— Caroline Wozniacki

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

— Quinn Shephard

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

— Ettore Sottsass

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And…

— Jim Lee

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the…

— Gianfranco Ferre

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

— Peter Marino

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself…

— Chip Kidd

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

— Trudi Canavan

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with…

— Herodotus

Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it…

— Lord Kelvin

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the…

— Olivier Theyskens

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he…

— Jonathan Swift

You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged…

— William A. Dembski

I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if…

— Michael Jackson

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s…

— Daniel Clowes

I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time…

— Alexis Ohanian

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel…

— Mark Twain

Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting…

— George Will

You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

— Dorothy Draper

“Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.”

— Baris Gencel

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

— Paula Scher

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

— Masato

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

— Steven Johnson

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

— Anonymous

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

— Debi Thomas

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

— Piet Zwart

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

— Caldwell Esselstyn

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

— David Hockney

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

— Debbie Millman

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love…

— Jenny Packham

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

— Frank Gehry

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

— Steve McConnell