Artwork Quote by Connie Willis

When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what…

— Tinker Hatfield

I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing…

— Carrie Fulton Phillips

“What they all shared was optimism, openness to experimentation, a love of storytelling, a need to collaborate, and an instinct to think with their…

— Tim Brown

Everything that we design is designing us back

— Jason Silva

While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of…

— Susan Jeffers

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

“Design is your silent storyteller. The visual aesthetic you share with the world tells a story about the values you uphold. When your audience…

— Laura Busche

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

— Timothy Morton

“ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of…

— Angela Carter

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

— Hartmut Esslinger

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

— Catherine Martin