Design Quote by David Pye Download Open image “Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.” — David Pye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Improvisation Lashes
“Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.” — David Pye Copy Share Image
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker. — Brit Morin Copy Share Image
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything… — David Pye Copy Share Image
The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making. — David Pye Copy Share Image
“Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.” — David Pye Copy Share Image
“Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.” — David Pye Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image