Famous Quotes About - design

  • A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. ... Edith Head {view}
  • A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ... Antoine de Saint-Exupery {view}
  • A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. ... Niklaus Wirth {view}
  • About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. ... Manolo Blahnik {view}
  • Accessible design is good design. ... Steve Ballmer {view}
  • Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. ... Pierre Bonnard {view}
  • Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ... Miguel de Cervantes {view}
  • Design is an unknown. ... Geoffrey Beene {view}
  • Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. ... Ivan Chermayeff {view}
  • Design is everything. Everything! ... Paul Rand {view}
  • Design is not for philosophy it's for life. ... Issey Miyake {view}
  • Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ... Steve Jobs {view}
  • Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. ... Louis Kahn {view}
  • Design is people. ... Jane Jacobs {view}
  • Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. ... Paul Rand {view}
  • Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. ... Thomas J. Watson {view}
  • Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input. ... Ron Johnson {view}
  • Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. ... Tyra Banks {view}
  • Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. ... Kenzo Tange {view}
  • Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. ... Robert Collier {view}
  • Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. ... Herbert Simon {view}
  • Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. ... Stephen Gardiner {view}
  • Good design doesn't date. ... Harry Seidler {view}
  • Good design is good business. ... Thomas J. Watson {view}
  • Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. ... James Randolph Adams {view}
  • I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. ... Giorgio Armani {view}
  • I design for the woman who loves being a woman. ... Diane von Furstenberg {view}
  • I don't design clothes, I design dreams. ... Ralph Lauren {view}
  • I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. ... Mike Davidson {view}
  • I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. ... Gianni Versace {view}
  • I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. ... Marc Newson {view}
  • I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ... Daniel Libeskind {view}
  • I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ... Anna Quindlen {view}
  • I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure. ... Robin Day {view}
  • In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. ... Donald Norman {view}
  • It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. ... Henri Matisse {view}
  • Luck is the residue of design. ... Branch Rickey {view}
  • Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ... Samuel Johnson {view}
  • Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one. ... David McFadden {view}