Designer Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Design, Roles, Welcome

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Creativity, Fighting, Design

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Doctors

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• Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Style

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

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• Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

  "Gaming can make a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

  Herbert Simon

  Order, Goal, Function

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• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Color, Design

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Stars, Designer Clothes

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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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• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Women, Clothes You Wear

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• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sex, Blue Dress

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

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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, Design, Misunderstood

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• There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Design, Graphic Design

  Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Art, Design

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

  Leon Kass

  Baby, Hype, Perspective

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• Be the designer of your own destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Life, Motivational, Future

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Design, Easy, Difficult

  Samuel Johnson (1803). “The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]”, p.71

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• Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

  Victor Papanek

  Meaningful, Order, Design

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• You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

  Kesha

  Car, Bags, Looks

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

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• The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

  John Maeda

  Tree, Balance, Looks

  John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.21, MIT Press

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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, Design, Fickle

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• What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Two, Feet

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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