Top 1200 Best Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content must be brought to the surface. And when a design is completed, it should seem natural and obvious. It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last.

I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

The key to industrial leadership is technology and design; of the two, technology is quantifiable and design is not. Technological improvements might make your product worth another $20. If you design something beautiful, what is that worth? It's worth whatever people will pay for it.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Design isn't risky?-?change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not writing about design any more this year. It makes no sense at all during the recession unless you write about sustainable or ethical design-very basic things, like how to get clean water in countries with a shortage of it.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.

I know what I am doing with my handbag design and clothing design.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.

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.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

What makes a mockery of a lot of these 3D conversions, where they're shot in 2D and converted to 3D. Having laid a real 3D movie, you realize that it's right in the production design. You design sets that enhance the 3D and you design interactive elements, like the rain or smoke. If you're shooting 2D, you don't know about that.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.