Design Quotes · Page 49

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

— Michael Graves

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

— Aza Raskin

“I write because I must. I design because I can. Changing the world, one word at a time.”

— Jo Michaels

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in…

— Alber Elbaz

I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.

— Dylan Sprouse

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

— Rem Koolhaas

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

— Eric Gill

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

— Ralf Speth

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful…

— Richard Dawkins

I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why…

— Zach Braff

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their…

— Donatella Versace

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way,…

— Martin Gardner

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether…

— John Dewey

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should…

— Donald A. Norman

If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned…

— Jim Rohn

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to…

— Linus Torvalds

“Branding is something designers think about a lot. You take something like a perfume or car tire, or butt-flavored bubblegum, and you…

— Hank Green

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to…

— Tony Kushner

Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,…

— Daniel Walker Howe

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as…

— Vera Wang

I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has…

— Lela Rose

I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did.…

— Neal Adams

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and…

— Charles M. Schulz

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

— Charles Darwin

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

— Cindy Gallop

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

— Eva Zeisel

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

— Mark Lawrence

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

— Samuel Johnson

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

— Paula Scher

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

— Harry Bertoia

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

— Cynthia Rowley

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

— Edward Tufte

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

— Nevil Shute

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

— Henry Spencer

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

— Issey Miyake

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

— Donald A. Norman