Design Quotes - Page 5

• Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Art, Soul

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Ideas, Normalcy, Chaos

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• Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

  Louis Kahn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  ":The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:Redefining the Practice of Sustainability". Book by Bill Reed (p. 216), October 11, 2011.

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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

  Cities, House, Rooms

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• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

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• Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

  David Carson

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Doe

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Half, Bread

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• The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

  Erich Gamma

  Use, Patterns, Produce

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• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Creativity, Humor, Thinking

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• You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

  Dieter Rams

  People, Made, Ifs

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• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

  Eliel Saarinen

  Next, Considering

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• Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

  Issey Miyake

  Death, Philosophy, Graphic Design

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• The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

  Donald A. Norman

  Software, Hardest, Features

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• The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

  Paola Antonelli

  Ideas, Able, Atoms

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• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

  Paul Tillich

  Failure, Risk, Failing

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• Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Swag, Connections

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Coinage Bill, March 03, 1926.

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• Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

  Christian Dior

  Beauty, Fashion, Zest

  Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956.

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• When it does not exist, design it.

  Henry Royce

  Doe

  "Transforming the Organization". P. 85. Book by Francis J. Gouillart, 1996.

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• Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.

  Tim Brown

  Creativity, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Drawing, Form

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• Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously.

  Rico Lebrun

  Drawing, Woven, Fundamentals

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

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• I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

  Gae Aulenti

  Space, Skylines, Rooms

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• It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

  Bill Reid

  Complicated, Hard

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• If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

  Sara Genn

  Artist, Darkness, Natural

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• We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.

  Tim Brown

  Creativity, Ideas, Impact

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