Design Quotes

The artist in me cries out for design.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Good design is good business.

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.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

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

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

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

Design is an unknown.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

The primary factor is proportions.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

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.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Accessible design is good design.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.