Design Quotes - Page 8

• Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

  Joel Spolsky

  Coders, Add, Cost

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• Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Experience, Needs, Behavior

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• I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Organization, Information, Consistent

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

  Otl Aicher

  Art, Inspire, Good Art

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• I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Designer Clothes

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1986

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• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Food

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.

  Ron Pompei

  Ideas, Retail, Culture

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• Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.

  April Greiman

  Teacher, Voice, Tables

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• The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

  Vittorio Gregotti

  Essence, Tasks, Transformation

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• The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Ideas, Training, Culture

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• Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Determination, Team, People

  "The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization" by Jena Mcgregor, www.fastcompany.com. June 1, 2005.

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• As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

  Rick Poynor

  Moving, Self, Breathing

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• Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, People, Doing You

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• Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.

  James P Hackett

  Real, Feel Better, Appreciate

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• No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

  Michael Ende

  People, House, Different

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• But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

  Mary Astell

  Marriage, Husband, Should Have

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

  Paul Saffo

  Butterfly, Jewels, Data

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

  Michelle Obama

  Artistic, Complexity

  "Michelle Obama At The National Design Awards: HELLO YELLOW!" by Anya Strzemien, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2009.

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• So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

  Kim Kardashian

  Fun, Clothes, Mind

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• Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

  Van Day Truex

  Two, Differences, Rooms

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• It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

  T. S. Eliot

  Perfect, Needs, Impossible

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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