Challenges Quote by Jens Martin Skibsted

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] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos…

— John Hockenberry

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating…

— Ellen Lupton

Design is a response to social change.

— George Nelson

“Design is not a politically or socially neutral space. Concepts are increasingly phenomena that mediate what kinds of relationships individual people, citizens, consumers, and…

— Wendy Gunn

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

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

— Yves Behar

“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process…

— Maggie Macnab

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

— Bruce Mau

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

— Marcel Wanders

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

— Kenya Hara

In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.

— Debbie Millman