I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone. — Russel Wright Copy Share Image
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. — Hartmut Esslinger Copy Share Image
“Good design doesn’t stem from intuition, talent, or luck (although I’ll take a smidgen of each). It comes from research and understanding.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design! — Neil Tierney Copy Share Image
3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion). — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only… — Charles James Copy Share Image
My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I think we all have those particular pieces of clothes that we really like, because it ages well, because it fits you… — Christophe Lemaire Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have… — James P Hackett Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image