Design Quotes
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The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
Clive Thompson
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Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
Ben Parr
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Don't think too much of style.
William Morris
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Eliel Saarinen
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The new package design and label reflect decades of experience and everything we know about effectively communication with today's consumer.
Brian Perkins
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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames
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Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
Naoto Fukasawa
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Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete.
Collier Schorr
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A soup manufacturer uses the same colors and design on every label to catch the consumer's eye and assure her that she's getting brand-name quality, whether she's buying bean soup or corn chowder or cream of tomato.
Leigh Michaels
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
W. Edwards Deming
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A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.
Frank Gehry
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'We've always been competitive. I yell at Liam all the time, 'Move faster! Work harder!' I'm like the trainer because I design all the workouts and implement and enforce them.
Luke Hemsworth
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I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.
Jaime Pressly
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Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.
Li Shufu
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I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.
Neill Blomkamp
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3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
Seymour Cray
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I definitely want to design clothes at one point.
Kendall Jenner
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I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.
R. J. Anderson
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
John Malkovich
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Building design isn't trendy.
Kevin McCloud
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I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.
Jamie Bamber
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
Pope Benedict XVI
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I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.
Lynn Whitfield