Design Quotes
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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
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I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
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We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.
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Everything is design. Everything!
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I try to think and design in color.
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Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my approach, I am not really a minimalist. I don't like to leave out ideas that I think could add something to the story. Sometimes, you can't quite pick up on all of it in one sitting. It's not by design. But maybe it's a side effect of my approach.
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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
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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 human-made world.
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Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
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I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
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If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?
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That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
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I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
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Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
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There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by Laszló Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we with Alix MacKenzie didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.
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My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
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A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
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The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.
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The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
