Top 1200 Great Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

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.

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.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Great design should tell a story.

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.

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.

This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design.

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

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

A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.

Great design is serious, not solemn

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

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

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

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

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.

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.

Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle.

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 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.

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

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

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

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

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.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

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

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

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

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

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

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

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

The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its foliage. In Europe great masses of foliage first attract the eye, here the limbs and trunk, which, on account of their proportion and colour, make themselves felt first, and one thinks of the foliage as a secondary matter.

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.

The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody - even Richard Dawkins - sees design in biology. You see this design when you see co-ordinated parts coming together to perform a function - like in a hand. And so it's the appearance of design that everybody's trying to explain. So that if Darwin's theory doesn't explain it we're left with no other explanation than maybe it really was designed. That's essentially the design argument.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

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

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

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.

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

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

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