“If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.”
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.
“It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.”
“If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.”
“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.”
“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”
“Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.”
“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.”
“So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.”
“The proper study of mankind is the science of design.”
“Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.”
“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”
“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”
“It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.”
“Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.”
“User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.”
“Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.”
“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”