Design Quotes - Page 7

• The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

  Leo Burnett

  New Relationship, Secret, Originality

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Firsts, Creation

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• Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

  David Hockney

  Art, Moving, Creative

  1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Eye, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spiritual, Misunderstood, Unions

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• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Freeman Thomas

  Honesty, Creative Collaboration, Tough Questions

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• The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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• If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Inspirational, Writing, Giving

  Espana, 20 Nov. 1920

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• When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

  Tibor Kalman

  Hate, Graphic Design, One Love

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• I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she would say: "Did you write it or did you do the drawing?" or "Did you take the pictures?" I'd always answer "no", then I realized the problem. My answer was then, "I made this happen". It's called design.

  Brian Webb

  Mother, Jobs, Nice

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• If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beautiful, Lunch, Tools

  "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

  Zuzana Licko

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

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• True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Communication, Icons, Files

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• The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

  Piet Zwart

  Letters, Funny Graphic Design

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• The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

  L. Bruce Archer

  Calling, Done, Habit

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• To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

  Le Corbusier

  Order, Architecture, Function

  Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

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• The most common misperception is the word 'design'. People think of primarily pretty pictures or forms. They don't understand the depth to which design goes-not only in products, but in every aspect of our life. Whether it is the design of a program, a product or some form of communication, we are living in a world that's totally designed. Somebody made a decision about everything. And it was a design decision.

  Sam Farber

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down to the smallest detail Protects the environment Good design is as little design as possible.

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Giving, Littles

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• Good design is serious business.

  Alan G. Lafley

  Serious Business, Serious, Good Design

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• A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Grumpy, Website, Salesperson

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• I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Two, Brain, Study

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• What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

  Rian Hughes

  Hair, Trying, Necks

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• Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.

  Ron Miriello

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Invention, Perspiration

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• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

  Albert Hadley

  Essence, People, Interiors

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