Good Design Quotes - Page 6

• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  Nate Berkus

  Jobs, Antiques, Designer

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• Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

  Rands

  Design, Decision, Irrelevant

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• Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

  Tim Brown

  Technology, Design, Needs

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• To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

  Yves Behar

  Emotional, Glasses, Design

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• The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think we all have those particular pieces of clothes that we really like, because it ages well, because it fits you well, because you feel comfortable, and you feel confident in those clothes. All those aspects of good design are what I'm interested in.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Thinking, Clothes, Design

  "The Beauty in the Basics". Interview with Natalia Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2016.

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• Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of other places. Whether that has anything to do with the landscape, who knows?

  Michael Bierut

  Australia, Design, Environmental

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

  Olivier Theyskens

  People, Design, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.

  Zomby

  Fashion, Musician, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A good design is not a democratic consensus.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Motivation, Design

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• No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

  George Nelson

  Attitude, Integrity, Design

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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, Design, Friendly

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• Good designers copy; great designers steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Design, Stealing, Copies

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• Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

  Otl Aicher

  Art, Design, Inspire

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• A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Psychological, Criteria

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• Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Creative, Details

  "15 Things You Didn't Know About Dieter Rams" by Jennifer Wood, www.complex.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Design, Lasting

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• Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

  Jared Spool

  Design, Done, Invisible

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