Design Quotes · Page 62

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

— Henry Dreyfuss

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

— Charlotte Ronson

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

— Kathryn Gustafson

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

— Johann Johannsson

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

— Jonathan Ive

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

— Alexa Hirschfeld

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

— Thomas A. Stewart

I'm a very peaceful man. In the '80s, I was the chief designer at Thyssen, one of the biggest companies in Germany.…

— Luigi Colani

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

— Francisco Costa

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that.…

— Henry David Thoreau

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what…

— William Morris

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing…

— Seth Godin

As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid…

— Jeff Fisher

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture…

— Betsey Johnson

“Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form. Those pretty tools like glue…

— Elizabeth Winder

I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween. Wear a costume - 'cause if you've manned your door…

— Greg Behrendt

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific…

— Ban Ki-moon

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals…

— Maurice Wilkes

I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under…

— Kellan Lutz

I was 3 years old, and we had a very rich neighbor in Berlin who drove a Mercedes sports car. I remember…

— Luigi Colani

The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural…

— George H. Smith

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was…

— Richard Whately

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

— Robert Hughes

“called Elisabeth Sterling Design (ESD for short), a company that designs and manufactures a popular line of”

— Karyn Bosnak

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

— Tibor Kalman

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

— Peter Thiel

We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

— Anne-Marie Willis

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

— Jakob Nielsen

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

— Neil Gaiman

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

— Paul Davies

There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

— Vaclav Smil

“What comes about by design or chance determine how life plays out.”

— Steven Redhead

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

— Carol S. Dweck

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

— Rob Pike

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

— John Maeda

Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

— Michael Bierut

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

— Anonymous

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

— Genevieve Gorder