Design Quotes

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  Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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• To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

  Thomas Manss

  Memorable, Needs, Remember

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

  Philippe Starck

  Goodness, Humanist, Concepts

  "Design and Technology for the Next Generation". Book edited by David Barlex, 2007.

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• Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Good design doesn't date.

  Harry Seidler

  Dating, Good Design

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• Design means being good, not just looking good.

  Clement Mok

  Mean, Design Process, Looking Good

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  Ellen Lupton

  Technology, Spacing, Graphic Design

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

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• Everything is design. Everything!

  Paul Rand

  Michael Kroeger, Paul Rand (2008). “Paul Rand: Conversations with Students”, p.25, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Attitude, Thinking, Profession

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• There is no better designer than nature

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Designer, Design In Nature

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  Victor Papanek

  Facts, Planning, Ends

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• I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Death, Fashion, Being A Woman

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

  Neil Gaiman

  World, Made, Seems

  "Gunpowder treason and plot" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. November 5, 2004.

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• Math is easy; design is hard.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Math, Easy, Hard

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• Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Business, Loyal Customers

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• Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

  Robert L. Peters

  Inspiring, Art, Culture

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• Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

  Jon Franklin

  Inspiring, Simplicity, Elegance

  Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

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

  Dieter Rams

  Creative, Details, Lasts

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

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

  Ladislav Sutnar

  Flow, Form, Process

  Ladislav Sutnar (1961). “Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes”

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