Design Quotes - Page 10

• An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Business, Lying, Creativity

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• I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

  Donald A. Norman

  People, Experts, Knows

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• Good design makes a product understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  Good Design, Products

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Greek

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• Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

  Michael Shannon

  Creative, Fundamentals, World

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• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  Will Burtin

  Communication, Data, Ideas

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• For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

  John Seely Brown

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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• Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).

  Norman Potter

  Communication, Simple, Decision

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• I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

  Chuck Jones

  Ivory Tower, Voice, Differences

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• Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

  Jennifer Morla

  Moving, Issues

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• 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.

  Bob Lutz

  Communication, Excellence, Ethics

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• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

  Alvin Toffler

  Jobs, Play, People

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• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  Louis Kahn

  Architecture, Reaching, Reach Out

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• Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

  Robert L. Peters

  Opposites, Antidote, Happenstance

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• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Love, Marriage, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Complicated

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• Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

  William McDonough

  Dream, Firsts, Intention

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Change, Beauty, Beautiful

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• To create, one must first question everything.

  Eileen Gray

  Creativity, Creating, Firsts

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Work

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Work, People, Imagination

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• Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

  Marcel Wanders

  Luxury, Opulence, Priceless

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