Designer Quotes - Page 29

• Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Program, Interest, Transparent

  "A Digital Contrarian Retires" by Beat Gerber, www.modulaware.com. March 1999.

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• All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

  Larry Wall

  Arrogant, Territory, Language

  Usenet article <1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com>, groups.google.com. 1991.

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• I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

  Rachel Roy

  Years, Wanted, Known

  "Interview: Entrepreneur & Designer Rachel Roy". Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

  Nicky Hilton

  Dream, Kids, Names

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• These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

  Glenn Martinez

  Watches, Needs, Television

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• I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

  William McDonough

  Thinking, Order, Design

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• For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

  Christian Siriano

  Successful, Luxury, People

  "'Project Runway' Star Christian Siriano Delivers Another Hit at New York Fashion Week". www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2010.

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• I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Apples, Creative

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• People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin color…? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity. And there are people who do not. I don’t get it. Beauty is universal. These doors have to open.

  Joan Smalls

  Skin Color, Doors, People

  "The Return of the Supermodel: It's Joan Smalls" by Molly Young, www.elle.com. December 4, 2013.

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• Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.

  Dieter Rams

  Dream, Attitude, Creativity

  "Dieter Rams/ Profile". designmuseum.org.

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• I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

  Dieter Rams

  Names, Voice, Apples

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• Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
  Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
  of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

  Steven Heller

  Roots, Knowing, Design

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• There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.

  Norman Corwin

  Self, Actors, Television

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• By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
  designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

  P. J. Plauger

  Fun, Opportunity, Long

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• I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

  Dale Chihuly

  Artist, Names, Half

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• Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

  Aza Raskin

  Decision, Care, Intriguing

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• You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

  Andre Balazs

  Stars, Directors, Stories

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• People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment.

  John C. Dvorak

  Jobs, Sex, Party

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• To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Reality, Views, Order

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• The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

  Bruno Munari

  Art, Long, People

  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

  Freeman Thomas

  Thinking, Novelists, Information

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Views, Two

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• Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

  Fred Brooks

  Identity

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• I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, People, Able

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