Inspirational Design Quotes

• You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  Wim Crouwel

  Work, Technology, Design

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• If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Graphic Design, Designer

  Massimo Vignelli, Lella Vignelli, Images Publishing (2004). “Design is One”, p.4, Images Publishing

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  Ellen Lupton

  Technology, Design, Spacing

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

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• Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

  John Maeda

  Meaningful, Simplicity, Design

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2013

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• If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 31, 2013

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• When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

  William Gibson

  Engineering, Design, Want

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin

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• Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Black, Experience

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• Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

  George Santayana

  Design, Individuality, Hobbies

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• A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Technology, Design, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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• Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

  Michael Langham

  Flower, Inspiration, Design

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• Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

  David Hockney

  Art, Moving, Design

  1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

  Thomas Manss

  Memorable, Design, Needs

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

  Jon Franklin

  Inspiring, Simplicity, Design

  Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

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• We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Shapes, Interior Design

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Interesting, Design

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• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  Orson Welles

  Fashion, Successful, Unique

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• If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  Erik Adigard

  Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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