Top 1200 Design Inspiration Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

I see other athletes as inspiration, like Rafa Nadal, Pau Gasol, Fernando Alonso. I think they are great inspiration for youngsters and for everybody.

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

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

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

I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

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.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

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

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Good design means as little design as possible.

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don't work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!

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'.

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

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

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

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

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

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

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

The only true source of inspiration is to be an inspiration.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

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

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

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.

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

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

When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy. Obviously it's more than just a set of rules, but the basics of design are actually pretty simple and quite mathematical. The link between data and design works at quite a fundamental level.

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

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

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.