Design Quotes - Page 9

• Design is thinking made visual.

  Saul Bass

  Thinking, Made, Visuals

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• Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Agency, Light, Creative

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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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• So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

  Kim Kardashian

  Fun, Clothes, 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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• 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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• 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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• Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

  Van Day Truex

  Two, Differences, Rooms

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• The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Ideas, Training, Culture

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• Good design is innovative
  2. Good design makes a product useful
  3. Good design is aesthetic
  4. Good design makes a product understandable
  5. Good design is unobtrusive
  6. Good design is honest
  7. Good design is long-lasting
  8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
  9. Good design is environmentally friendly
  10. Good design is as little design as possible

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Friendly, Lasts

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Soul, Layers

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

  Giorgio Armani

  Death, Real, Artist

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• There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

  Eric Gill

  Different, Letters, Fool

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.43, Laurus

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Greek

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• I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

  Donald A. Norman

  People, Experts, Knows

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• Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

  Paola Antonelli

  Inspirational, Motivational, May

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• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

  Alvin Toffler

  Jobs, Play, People

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• An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Business, Lying, Creativity

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• Good design makes a product understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  Good Design, Products

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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

  Creative, Fundamentals, World

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• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  Will Burtin

  Communication, Data, Ideas

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• For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

  John Seely Brown

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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• But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

  Marian Bantjes

  Successful, Deals, Exception

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• At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

  Erik Adigard

  Survival, Levels, Dots

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• It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

  Robert Greenberg

  Creative, Stories, Problem

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