Design Quotes
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The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
Milton Glaser
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We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.
Anne-Marie Willis
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Everything is design. Everything!
Paul Rand
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Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
Ellen Lupton
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Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
Seth Godin
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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.
Steve Jobs
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Erich Gamma
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
Eva Zeisel
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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.
Ellen Lupton
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Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
Mike Fitzpatrick
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I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
Eva Moskowitz
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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.
Michael Shannon
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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
Michael Behe
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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.
Warren MacKenzie
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If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?
Michael Hansmeyer
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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.
George Pendle
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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.
Bill Mollison
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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
Steven Johnson
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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.
Steve Jobs
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My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
Tommy Hilfiger
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A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
Neil Tierney
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In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.
Tommy Hilfiger
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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.
George Will