21st century Quote by Rick Poynor

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 not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

— Henry Petroski

Everything that we design is designing us back

— Jason Silva

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual,…

— Bill Buxton

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

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must…

— Ivan Chermayeff

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman,…

— Donna Karan

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an…

— Victor Papanek

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

— Gauri Khan

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

— Yves Behar

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

— Vera Wang