Good Design Quotes

90 Good Design quotes by 58 unique authors

The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole.… — Leo Lionni
Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and… — Unknown Author
Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good design doesn't cost, but it pays. — Richard Driehaus
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down… — Dieter Rams
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. — Unknown Author
Good design is serious business. — Alan G. Lafley
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of… — Terence Conran
Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand… — James P Hackett
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function,"… — Carl Magnusson
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened… — Dieter Rams
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average. — Curt Schilling
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.... — Dieter Rams
Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be… — Dieter Rams
I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home. — Candice Olson
Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness. — Chuck Green
If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design. — Unknown Author
Good design is forever. — Van Day Truex
The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I… — Van Day Truex
Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management. — Van Day Truex
Not all design is for the general good. — Paola Antonelli
Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time. — Unknown Author
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to… — Arthur Erickson
I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone. — Unknown Author

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