445 Quotes Regarding Design


Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio Armani

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

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

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens

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.
Tadao Ando

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Gianni Versace

The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Diane von Furstenberg

Good design doesn't date.
Harry Seidler