Design Quote by William McDonough Download Open image “Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.” — William McDonough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Dream Dreams Firsts Hope Hopes and dreams Humans Intention Signals Visible
We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds. — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done. — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. — April Greiman Copy Share Image
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan. — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon.… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image