Design Quotes

• I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Book
  • Player

• What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Trying
  • Values
  • Certain

• I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Stupid
  • Profession
  • Magazines

• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Design
  • Act

• We must prove design before we can infer a designer.1

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Design

• IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

  

  Douglas Trumbull
  • Design

• My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Design
  • Summer

• Design is the last great competitive advantage.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Design
  • Advantage
  • Competitive

• I've been reluctant in doing press stuff - even my Instagram isn't properly managed; I manage it myself. It's kind of by design. I knew that would be what people see first.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Design

• The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believe Contrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

  

  Alexander Girardun
  • Hope
  • Design
  • Living

• I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

  

  Seymour Cray
  • Design

• It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Art
  • Film
  • Look

• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  

  Eula Biss
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Intelligent

• People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • World
  • Mind
  • School

• I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

  

  Rick Perry
  • School
  • Intelligent
  • Evolution

• I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Love
  • Die
  • Labor

• Design is a response to social change.

  

  George Nelson
  • Change
  • Design
  • Response

• Good design is not an applied veneer.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Design
  • Veneer

• Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

  

  Nicola Formichetti
  • Important
  • Design
  • Fabric

• Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • People
  • Design
  • Minds

• The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Design
  • Tao

• I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

  

  William McDonough
  • People
  • World
  • Wealthy

• Design is important because chaos is so hard.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Design
  • Hard
  • Chaos

• Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

  

  Arman
  • Design
  • Kitchen
  • Knife

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