Design Quotes - Page 8

• Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

  Joel Spolsky

  Coders, Add, Cost

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• Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Experience, Needs, Behavior

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• I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Organization, Information, Consistent

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

  Otl Aicher

  Art, Inspire, Good Art

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• I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Designer Clothes

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1986

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• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Food

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.

  James P Hackett

  Real, Feel Better, Appreciate

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• Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, People, Doing You

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• As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

  Rick Poynor

  Moving, Self, Breathing

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

  Michelle Obama

  Artistic, Complexity

  "Michelle Obama At The National Design Awards: HELLO YELLOW!" by Anya Strzemien, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

  Will Durant

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Notebook, Writing, Decision

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Construction, Given, Interest

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• Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Elements, Mathematician

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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• Life is tough; thank God there's design.

  Paola Antonelli

  Thank God, Tough, Life Is

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• But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

  Mary Astell

  Marriage, Husband, Should Have

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Determination, Team, People

  "The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization" by Jena Mcgregor, www.fastcompany.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

  Paul Saffo

  Butterfly, Jewels, Data

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

  Michael Ende

  People, House, Different

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• An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Sake, Patterns

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• Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Would Be, Used

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