Design Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

— Jonah Lehrer

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates…

— Victor Papanek

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“What then is this thing called Design if it is neither style nor applied art? It is planning: the planning as objectively as possible…

— Bruno Munari

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

“Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is best illustrated…

— James C. Scott

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder

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

“It must be that sometimes our assertions about higher order and hidden design are fables we’ve made up to help us ignore our own…

— Lewis Hyde

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and…

— Bruce Mau