Design Quotes

We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Good design doesn't date.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Design is people.

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

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Good design is good business.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

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.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

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

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.