Design Quotes - Page 9

• Design is thinking made visual.

  Saul Bass

  Thinking, Made, Visuals

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• Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Would Be, Used

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• Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Agency, Light, Creative

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• Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

  Will Durant

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Elements, Mathematician

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Notebook, Writing, Decision

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Life is tough; thank God there's design.

  Paola Antonelli

  Thank God, Tough, Life Is

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• Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Construction, Given, Interest

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• An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Sake, Patterns

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• Good design is innovative
  2. Good design makes a product useful
  3. Good design is aesthetic
  4. Good design makes a product understandable
  5. Good design is unobtrusive
  6. Good design is honest
  7. Good design is long-lasting
  8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
  9. Good design is environmentally friendly
  10. Good design is as little design as possible

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Friendly, Lasts

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Soul, Layers

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

  Giorgio Armani

  Death, Real, Artist

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• Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

  Emil Ruder

  Writing, Information, Argument

  Emil Ruder (2001). “Typographie”, Arthur Niggli

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• If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

  Alan Cooper

  Want, Helpful, Respectful

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• I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

  Johanna Drucker

  Thinking, Needs, Theory

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• Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

  Jared Spool

  Design Process, Quality, Requirements

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• Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

  David Gelernter

  Defense, Complexity, Computer Programming

  David Hillel Gelernter (1998). “Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

  Donald A. Norman

  Understanding, Feelings, Feels

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• At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

  Erik Adigard

  Survival, Levels, Dots

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• It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Roles, Welcome, Failing

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• But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

  Marian Bantjes

  Successful, Deals, Exception

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• It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

  Robert Greenberg

  Creative, Stories, Problem

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• Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

  Jan Tschichold

  Art, Perfect, Sculpture

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• Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

  Paola Antonelli

  Inspirational, Motivational, May

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• There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

  Eric Gill

  Different, Letters, Fool

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.43, Laurus

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