Design Quotes - Page 2

• Make it like a sunflower.

  Steve Jobs

  Sunflower

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

  Terence Conran

  Common Sense, Attention, Function

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• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

  Milton Glaser

  Cooking, Computer, Microwaves

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• Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

  Dieter Rams

  Meaningful, Memorable, Great Design

  "Basics Design 01: Format: Second Edition" by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, A&C Black, (p. 151), May 1, 2012.

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• Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.

  Mirko Ilic

  Thinking, Hours

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Computers are stupid.

  Pablo Picasso

  Stupid, Computer

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• The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

  Herbert Simon

  Death, Study, Mankind

  "Clive Dilnot’s Speech at Graduation Ceremony of MA Design Studies 2016 class". adht.parsons.edu. June 13, 2016.

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• A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.

  Tucker Viemeister

  Beautiful, Teacher, Men

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• Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.

  Sara Little Turnbull

  Moving, Order, Path

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• A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

  Leo Frankowski

  Beautiful, Simple, Talking

  Leo Frankowski (2004). “Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior”, p.155, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

  Gianni Versace

  Death, Body

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not

  David Airey

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• Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

  Lauren Hutton

  Inspirational, Fashion, Years

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

  April Greiman

  Creativity, Emotional, Important

  April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hammers, Use, Tables

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  M. C. Escher

  Inspirational, Life, Order

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• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

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• The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

  Stephen Gardiner

  Garden, Land, Concerned

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• There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Nice, Reason, Unhappiness

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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  Salvador Dali

  Creativity, Creative, Taste

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Color, Quality

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• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  Walt Disney

  Death, Dream, Inspiration

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