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Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey on design

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

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

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 on design

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

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

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 on design

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

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

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 on design

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

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

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 on design

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

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand on design

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

The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen on design

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

Good design doesn't date.
Harry Seidler on design

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Marc Newson on design