Clear Quote by Kenji Ekuan

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

— Ivan Chermayeff

“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

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

— Marcel Wanders

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

— Bruce Mau

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs…

— Gianfranco Frattini

To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to…

— Robert Bringhurst

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and…

— Paola Antonelli

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate…

— Dan Kiley

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder…

— Josef Albers

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

— Yves Behar