Design Quotes

Make it like a sunflower.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

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.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

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.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

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

Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it needed to exist, it therefore created itself. His conclusion merely restates his premise, which means his argument is circular. Nonsense is nonsense, even when spoken by famous scientists.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

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

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.