Design Quotes - page 2

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. (Pierre Bonnard)
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
It is not possible to design a laboratory resource allocation experiment without designing an institution in all its detail. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. View quote
Jim Rohn
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design. View quote
Jef Raskin
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. View quote
Renzo Piano
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. View quote
Tadao Ando
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. View quote
Tadao Ando
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. (Ferdinand Porsche)
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful. View quote
Dieter Rams
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role. View quote
Dieter Rams
Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation. View quote
Don Tapscott
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
Design is thinking made visible. View quote
Saul Bass
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. View quote
Milton Glaser
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. View quote
Paul Rand
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. View quote
Charles Bass
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! (Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.)
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them. View quote
Genevieve Gorder