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• When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.

  Milford Zornes

  Teaching, Dark, Keys

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• It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

  Michael Graves

  Careers, Goal, Design

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• Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Design, Said, Daffodil

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• One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country is mine," or "I will make it look this way because it's for an American market and that way for a Chinese market." If you look at all of the Apple products, they are the same everywhere . . . I mean, I can't deny that I love traveling. It's a very healthy thing to be able to appreciate other cultures - or at least witness them firsthand. And all of that goes into helping someone be a good designer, because it's an international business.

  Marc Newson

  Country, Mean, Appreciate

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• Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Design, Looks, Able

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• If his order from the president is to build a wall, John Kelly will build a wall. And I've got a design out there and I hope it's considered. There are other good designs out there. But he will get it done. He's a doer.

  Steve King

  Wall, Order, Design

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

  Paul Rand

  Technology, Design, Reassuring

  Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

  Susan Orlean

  Guarantees That, Two, Talent

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

  Jessica Hische

  Successful, Differences, Design

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

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• Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Mean, Design, Bed

  Source: www.printmag.com

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• My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.

  Tim Gunn

  Daughter, Fashion, Order

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• Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Hands, Design, Language

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• I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

  Brenda Laurel

  Believe, Design, Research

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• I've always wanted my work to be more available. I had this vision when I was younger of wanting to replace all of the bad jewelry in mom and pop jewelry stores with good designs. [I wanted to offer] a range of crazy, experimental one-of-a-kind pieces that would have integrity and be made of great construction as well as interesting engineering.

  Robert Lee Morris

  Mom, Integrity, Crazy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

  Paola Antonelli

  Attitude, Design, Needs

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• People say graphic design is so different now, because you have so many more pixels and colors to work with... But when you study art history, you see there's just nothing new under the sun. Mosaics and needlework, it's all analogous to pixel and bitmap art. And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.

  Susan Kare

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.

  Steve Wozniak

  Design, Shy, Clubs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

  John Galliano

  Men, Long, Design

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• And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.”

  Susan Kare

  Thinking

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• One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.

  Marc Newson

  Successful, Design, Training

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• Not all design is for the general good.

  Paola Antonelli

  Design

  ""Not all design is for the general good," says MoMA's Paola Antonelli". Interview with Gabrielle Kennedy, www.dezeen.com. May 15, 2014.

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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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• Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

  Terence Conran

  Common Sense, Design, Attention

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• Good design is serious business.

  Alan G. Lafley

  Design, Serious Business, Serious

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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, Design

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