Abstract Quote by Paul Rand

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material…

— Paul Rand

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

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

— Charles Eames

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

— Steve Jobs

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want…

— Marc Jacobs

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

— Joe Gebbia

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and…

— Paul Rand

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 really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

— Donald A. Norman