Affair Quote by Walter Gropius

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

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

— Bruce Mau

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

“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

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design…

— Kenji Ekuan

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

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

— John Hockenberry

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

— Victor Papanek

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