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• Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Creativity, Design, Environment

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• To the designer, great design is beautiful design. A significant amount of effort must be placed into making the product attractive. To the client, great design is effective. It must bring in customers and meet the goals put forth to the designer in the original brief. To the user, great design is functional. It’s easy to read, easy to use and easy to get out of it what was promised Truly great design, then, is when these three perspectives are considered and implemented equally to create a final product that is beautiful, effective and functional.

  Joshua Johnson

  Beautiful, Goal, Perspective

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• If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Faith, Inspiration, Sacrifice

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• Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

  Fred Brooks

  Moving, Average, Design

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• Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Design, Age, Inexperience

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

  Jean Racine

  Writing, Design, Single Word

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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• Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

  Jonathan Ive

  Axes, Design, Challenges

  "Apple's Lead Designer Jony Ive: 'Our Goal Isn't To Make Money'" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, Numbers, Design

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• But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Team, Blessed, Ideas

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview With Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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• You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

  John Doerr

  Design, Today

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• Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

  Francois Truffaut

  Humility, Men, Design

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• Predictability and great design are not friends.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Not Friends, Predictability

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• Great design is serious, not solemn

  Paula Scher

  Design, Serious, Solemn

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• When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

  John Denham

  Mean, Thinking, Design

  Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.150

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• I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
  My absence doth neglect no great design
  Which by my presence might have been concluded.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Design, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

  Jeff Fisher

  Successful, Design, Identity

  Source: justcreative.com

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• Every now and then the stars align,
  Boy and girl meet by the great design,
  Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones?
  Everybody told me love was blind,
  Then I saw your face
  and you blew my mind,
  Finally you and me are the lucky ones, this time

  Lana Del Rey

  Girl, Song, Stars

  Song: Lucky Ones, Album: Born 2 Die, 2012

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• The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Heart, Design, Attention

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1850). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy”, p.15

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• The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Enemy, Really Great

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money" by Olivia Solon, www.wired.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map the terrains of our lives, measure the farthest reaches of the universe, but no amount of searching will ever reveal for certain whether we are all children of chance or part of a great design. And who among us would have it otherwise? Who would wish to take the mystery out of the experience of looking into a newborn infant's eyes?

  Kent Nerburn

  Children, Eye, Design

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.99, New World Library

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Secrecy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1812). “Hypocrisy: A Satire”, p.167

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• If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

  Edward Tufte

  Practice, Design, Firsts

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