“I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.”
Good design is invisible; you only notice it when it is bad. These quotes come from designers, architects, and creative thinkers who understand that making something simple is usually the hardest work of all.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
“I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.”
“The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.”
“I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'”
“All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.”
“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”
“I won't give up my day job of design.”
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.”
“I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.”
“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
“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.”
“It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.”
“We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.”
“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.”
“Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.”