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

  Russel Wright

  Religious, Believe, Design

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• The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

  Van Day Truex

  Ideas, Design, Negative

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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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• Good design is forever.

  Van Day Truex

  Design, Forever, Interior Design

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• I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

  Candice Olson

  Integrity, Believe, Home

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• Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

  Carl Magnusson

  Inspiration, Design, Way

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

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Stupidity

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• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  George Nelson

  Design, Cooking, Spirit

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• Good design is not an applied veneer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Veneer

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• Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

  Alexander Isley

  Design, Want, Viewers

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• Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

  Paul Rand

  Design, Intuition, Gestalt

  "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

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• It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

  Paula Scher

  Mistake, Technology, Order

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• When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.

  Milford Zornes

  Teaching, Dark, Keys

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• Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Design, Said, Daffodil

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• The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. He arranges his levels consciously or subconsciously, adhearing to the requisites of the problem he is asked to solve or to his own inclination. Some designers see total act through a disc of aesthetic considerations-others, more practical minded, may put economic considerations at top level.

  Leo Lionni

  Perfect, Design, Unity

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• And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.”

  Susan Kare

  Thinking

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• Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

  John Galliano

  Men, Long, Design

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• Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down to the smallest detail Protects the environment Good design is as little design as possible.

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Giving, Design

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• Good design is serious business.

  Alan G. Lafley

  Design, Serious Business, Serious

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• Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

  Terence Conran

  Common Sense, Design, Attention

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• Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fashion, White, Design

  Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.

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