Design Quotes - page 9

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. (Charles J. Givens)
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. View quote
Isaac D'Israeli
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. View quote
Anton Corbijn
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen. View quote
Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. View quote
Paul Rand
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. View quote
Paul Rand
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. View quote
Paul Rand
If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. View quote
Paul Rand
Everything is design. Everything! View quote
Paul Rand
So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time. View quote
Paul Rand
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. (Jil Sander)
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. View quote
Biz Stone
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. View quote
Andrew Wyeth
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design. View quote
Venus Williams
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. View quote
Gianfranco Ferre
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. View quote
Gianfranco Ferre
Design cannot rescue failed content. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. View quote
Anthony Holden
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. (Arthur Erickson)
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over. View quote
B. J. Novak
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way. View quote
Brenda Laurel
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. View quote
Ben Parr