Designer Quotes

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

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

There is no better designer than nature

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.

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

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

Designers are not users.

The designer must think first and work later.

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more desirous of purchase, more efficient — or just plain happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

Design is too important to be left to designers.

I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to “make the invisible visible

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

I'm not a designer, I'm a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the time for everything that is around.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that.

Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

As for Instagram, I follow about 100 people, but I am not interested in what a designer is doing or what a friend of a friend is doing. I upload my photos on Instagram.

I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!