Design Quotes · Page 65

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

— Paula Scher

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

— Kenneth Grange

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

— Jay-Z

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

— Michael Bierut

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

— Victor Papanek

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

— Sun Tzu

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

— Eva Moskowitz

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

— Ben Bernanke

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the…

— Wernher von Braun

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or…

— Giorgio Armani

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life…

— Tony Robbins

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

— Ladislav Sutnar

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be…

— William Morris

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

— Paula Scher

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step…

— Charlotte Moss

For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided…

— David Gelernter

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already…

— Raf Simons

And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word…

— Eula Biss

Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed…

— Maurice Wilkes

I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to…

— Henrik Vibskov

There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United…

— Henry Rosovsky

What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it…

— John Lennox

It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from…

— Gustav Stickley

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

— Samuel Johnson

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

— Jonathan Ive

I think design is the expression of its time and culture.

— Marcel Wanders

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

— Nancy Lancaster

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

— Chris Murray

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

— Andy Stanley

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

— Jonathan Ive

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

— Tim Harford

Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.

— Jim Gaffigan

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design…

— Blake Crouch

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have…

— William Shakespeare

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

— Dieter Rams

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

— Ivan Chermayeff

“As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative…

— Paul Mijksenaar

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You…

— Renzo Piano