Design Quotes

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

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Design
  • Everyday

• I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Sales

• Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

  

  Drew Endy
  • Understanding
  • Design
  • Engineering

• To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Dream
  • Design

• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• ...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Architecture
  • Approach
  • Anticipatory

• I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Society
  • Interesting

• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

  

  El Lissitzky
  • Thoughts
  • Design
  • Speaker

• 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
  • Mean
  • Understanding
  • Doe

• The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Technology
  • Attitude
  • Architecture

• I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

  

  John Maeda
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • World
  • Experience
  • Nature

• My thesis is that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Design
  • Function
  • Thesis

• Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

  

  Neville Brody
  • Design
  • Painting
  • Dries

• All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Plant

• Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

  

  James Blake
  • Design
  • Heartfelt

• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Quality
  • Design
  • Color

• Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Up
  • Design
  • Architecture

• ...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

  

  Cedric Price
  • Architects
  • Anticipatory
  • Buckminster Fuller

• Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Education
  • Design
  • Memorial

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