Good Design Quotes - Page 4

• Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fashion, White, Design

  Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.

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• It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

  Paula Scher

  Mistake, Technology, Order

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• The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. He arranges his levels consciously or subconsciously, adhearing to the requisites of the problem he is asked to solve or to his own inclination. Some designers see total act through a disc of aesthetic considerations-others, more practical minded, may put economic considerations at top level.

  Leo Lionni

  Perfect, Design, Unity

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• Good design is not an applied veneer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Veneer

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• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  George Nelson

  Design, Cooking, Spirit

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• Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

  Alexander Isley

  Design, Want, Viewers

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• Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

  Carl Magnusson

  Inspiration, Design, Way

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• Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

  Paul Rand

  Design, Intuition, Gestalt

  "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

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• The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

  Van Day Truex

  Ideas, Design, Negative

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• Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

  Chuck Green

  Creativity, Design, Innovation

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• I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

  Candice Olson

  Integrity, Believe, Home

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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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• Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

  Van Day Truex

  Appreciation, Eye, Design

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• As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

  Curt Schilling

  Thinking, Average, Designer

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• Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

  Dieter Rams

  Simplicity, Design, Essentials

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• Good design is forever.

  Van Day Truex

  Design, Forever, Interior Design

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• I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

  Michael Graves

  Design, Matter

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• 3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

  Lester Beall

  Communication, Heart, Knowledge

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• It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
  That's good design.

  Sepp Holzer

  Design, Looks, Way

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• Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Style, Language

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• Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Imagination, Design

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• Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

  Jared Spool

  Thinking, Air, Hands

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• Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.

  Steve Ballmer

  Technology, People, Design

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• Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

  Noah Kerner

  Design, Aesthetic

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• To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Needs, Designer, Reaching

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