Good Design Quotes - Page 2

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

  David Carson

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design

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• Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

  Clement Mok

  Mean, Technology, Order

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  Victor Papanek

  People, Design, Important

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• If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

  Ralf Speth

  Fighting, Thinking, Design

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• What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Two, Feet

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• Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

  Clement Mok

  Design Process, Eras, Digital

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Artist, Hands

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• Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.

  Donald A. Norman

  Communication, Design, Appearance

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction, 2002.

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• I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

  Daniel Defoe

  Beer, Design, Trying

  Daniel Defoe (1719). “Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition”, p.155, Top Five Books LLC

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• Good design can't fix broken business models.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Business, Broken, Design

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• After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

  Steve Jobs

  Design, Marketing, Elements

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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

  Business, Design, Management

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• Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Forever

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• Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

  Stefan G. Bucher

  Design, Half, Stuff

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• We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

  Arthur Erickson

  Fashion, Believe, Inspiration

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

  Dieter Rams

  People, Design, Made

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• I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.

  Russel Wright

  Religious, Believe, Design

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• A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Design, Constraints, Stills

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• Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

  Michael Vanderbyl

  Thinking, Design, Formulas

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• Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Products, Usefulness

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• Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Stupidity

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