Design Quotes - Page 6

• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

  Christopher Alexander

  Two, Kind, Harmony

  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

  Tadao Ando

  Thinking, Space, People

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

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• Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

  Tyra Banks

  Firefighter, Fickle, Next

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• The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

  Leo Fender

  Order, Racist, Elements

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• The artist in me cries out for design.

  Robert Frost

  Artist, Artistic, Cry

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

  Milton Glaser

  Real, Independent, Persistence

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Designer

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• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  Orson Welles

  Time, Hate, Artist

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

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• A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Death, Thinking, Magic

  Interview with Carlo Pescio, www.eptacom.net. June 1997.

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• I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

  Carrie Fulton Phillips

  Badass, Bad Ass, Would Be

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• To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Motivational, Death, Letting Go

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• Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

  Clement Mok

  Mean, Technology, Order

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• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Discipline, Assuming, Problem

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

  Tom Peters

  Mistake, Issues, Understanding

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• Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

  Raymond Loewy

  Black, Experience, Graphic Artist

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• No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

  Adrian Forty

  Ideas, Design Work, People

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• Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

  Chuck Green

  Believe, Ocean, Eye

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• The primary factor is proportions.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Death, Proportion, Primaries

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Death, Thinking, Museums

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• In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

  Donald A. Norman

  Death, Opinion, Single Relationship

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• The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

  Tibor Kalman

  Differences, Great Design, Good Design

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