Design Quotes - Page 38

• I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

  Dieter Rams

  Names, Voice, Apples

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• Design is something you have to put your hand to.

  I. M. Pei

  Hands

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• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

  Cory Doctorow

  Math, Doors, Car

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.119, Macmillan

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• When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

  Dan Ariely

  Retirement, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

  Paula Scher

  Expectations, Use, Raises

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• To touch somebody’s heart with design.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Heart

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• Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
  Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
  of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

  Steven Heller

  Roots, Knowing, Able

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• You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

  Herb Lubalin

  Creativity, Greatness, Advertising

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• A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

  Chip Kidd

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

  Chip Kidd

  Race, Ideas, America

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

  Chip Kidd

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

  Chip Kidd

  Planning, Form, Plans

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

  David Bromstad

  Stars, Thinking, Color

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• I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

  Candice Olson

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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• I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

  Candice Olson

  Integrity, Believe, Home

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• Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

  Norio Ohga

  Marketplace, Products, Differentiate

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• Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

  Bruce Mau

  Trying, Shy, Might

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• Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

  Bruce Mau

  World, Massive Change, Massive

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• For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

  Bruce Mau

  Failing, Invisible

  Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute without Boundaries (2004). “Massive change”, Phaidon Press

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• In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry—and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow’s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.

  Marilyn Strathern

  Fashion, Block, Philosophy

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• Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

  Tom Wujec

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

  Julie Taymor

  Writing, Dancer, Theatre

  "Theatre Director Probes Humanism". Christopher Reardon, The Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 1992.

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• I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.

  Bryan Fischer

  Teenager, Struggle, Thinking

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• A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.

  Harry S. Broudy

  Past, Artist, Unfinished Work

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• I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Italian, Guy

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