As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average. — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time. — Stefan G. Bucher 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
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
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
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design! — Neil Tierney 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
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way. — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
If his order from the president is to build a wall, John Kelly will build a wall. And I've got a design… — Steve King 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
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 a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson 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
“who got an MBA after starting as a PM at Microsoft, decided to go to business school when he noticed that well-designed… — Gayle Laakmann McDowell 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
I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“The fact remains: Good design is testable, and design that isn’t testable is bad.” — Michael C. Feathers Copy Share Image
If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design. — Ralf Speth Copy Share Image