Design Quotes - Page 35

• Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
  Of which some days I with design have past;
  A part in April and a part in May
  Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
  And as the confines of two months are thine
  To sing of both the double task be mine.

  Ovid

  Past, Two, Tasks

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• Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

  James Lee Burke

  Fall, Junk, Yards

  James Lee Burke (2008). “The Tin Roof Blowdown”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

  Ellen Lupton

  Discipline, Community, Birth

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.174, Chronicle Books

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• Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

  Ellen Lupton

  Fun, Challenges, Problem

  Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips (2014). “Graphic Design: The New Basics”, p.160, Chronicle Books

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• Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

  Ellen Lupton

  Book, Reading, Offering

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.87, Chronicle Books

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• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

  Ellen Lupton

  Voice, Space, Diversity

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

  Jan Tschichold

  Expression, Asymmetry

  Jan Tschichold (1995). “The new typography: a handbook for modern designers”, Univ of California Pr

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• Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

  Eric Gill

  Practice, Typography, Legibility

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.14, Laurus

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• Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Understanding, Scientist

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

  Michael Shermer

  Home, Earth, Divine

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• After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

  L'Wren Scott

  Clothes, Long

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

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• The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Blue, Yellow, White

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• It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

  John Romero

  Games, Important, Fields

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• By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

  John Tenniel

  Mean, Paper, Woods

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• Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, Home

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• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  Andy Clark

  Art, Inspiration, Looks

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• I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

  Roger Penrose

  Purpose, Chance, Universe

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• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  People, Office, Add

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

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• When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

  Roger Martin

  Philosophy, Innovation, Trying

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• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Isaac Barrow

  May, Sin, Temper

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

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• It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Intelligent, May, Evolution

  "Humanism: Philosophical Essays". Book by F. C. S. Schiller, June 1903.

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• Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Effort, Marketing

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.92, Penguin

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• Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

  Jonathan Ive

  Axes, Challenges, Enemy

  "Apple's Lead Designer Jony Ive: 'Our Goal Isn't To Make Money'" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does speak to a set of values. And what preoccupies us is that sense of care, and what our products will not speak to is a schedule, what our products will not speak to is trying to respond to some corporate or competitive agenda. We’re very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Trying, Doe

  "Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core". Interview With Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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• There is beauty when something
  works and it works intuitively.

  Jonathan Ive

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