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The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.
Paula Scher
The responsibility of the designer is to render objects intelligible, practicable, available, pleasurable... crucial to an audience, that incorporates the audience.
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If you can design one thing, you can design everything.
Massimo Vignelli
'An aptitude for designing one object demonstrates an aptitude for designing any object.'
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Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
Philippe Starck
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No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.
Michael Bierut
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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
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Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.
Michael Bierut
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I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.
Marty Neumeier
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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.
Jan Tschichold
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The designer must think first and work later.
Will Burtin
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Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.
Rick Ross
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Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.
Ralph Lauren
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Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
Erik Spiekermann
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In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
Philippe Starck
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I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.
Tommy Hilfiger
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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.
Henry Dreyfuss
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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.
Gracie Allen
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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.
Herbert Simon
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I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
David Cage
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I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were
George Nelson
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
Indira Gandhi
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I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.
Raf Simons
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Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.
Roger Martin
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Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.
Jeffrey Zeldman
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Design is too important to be left to designers.
Raymond Loewy
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I think that it's a great time to be a designer.
Paula Scher
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I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Issey Miyake
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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
Hillman Curtis
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The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.
Jean Rosenthal
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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.
Sufjan Stevens
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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
Ross Lovegrove
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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.
Massimo Vignelli
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This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
Isaac Mizrahi
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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.
Alexander McQueen
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If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that.
Jessica Hische
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Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy
Tim Brown
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If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Bob Gill
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While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Paola Antonelli
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Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
Keith Duckworth
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
James Dyson
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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.
Franca Sozzani
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I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.
Paula Scher
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Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.
Tim Gunn
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We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.
Mink Stole
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Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!
Kanye West