Quote by Leander Kahney

“Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.”

— Peleg Top

Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an…

— Peter Saville

“If you take on production work, you don’t get to call yourself a designer.”

— Mike Monteiro

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to…

— Thom Browne

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

— Rudy VanderLans

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process…

— Bernard Arnault

Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies…

— Nathan Shedroff

“Businesspeople don’t just need to understand designers better; they need to become designers.”

— Alexander Osterwalder

The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not…

— Hartmut Esslinger

There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between…

— Ivan Chermayeff

“Anyone who doesn’t design, accepts to be designed.”

— Giulio Carlo Argan

As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of…

— Patrick Cox