Designer Quotes
Designer Quotes
The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design.
Adam Judge
There is no better designer than nature.
Alexander McQueen
Design is inteliigence made visible.
Alina Wheeler
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
Brian Reed
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
Bruno Munari
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames
Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Dieter Rams
Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.
Dieter Rams
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan
Design cannot rescue failed content.
Edward R. Tufte
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.
Frank Chimero
People ignore design that ignores people.
Frank Chimero
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia
The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the invisible visible.
Hillman Curtis
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you’re designing for.
I.M. Pei
Good design is good business.
Ian Schrager
Design is not for philosophy, it’s for life.
Issey Miyake
Design is people.
Jane Jacobs
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
Joe Sparano
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
John Hockenberry
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.
Juan-Carlos Fernandez
Every great design begins with an even better story.
Lorinda Mamo
Design is a formal response to a strategic question.
Mariona Lopez
If you can design one thing, you can design everything.
Massimo Vignelli
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Massimo Vignelli
The function of design is letting design function.
Micha Commeren
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
Mieke Gerritzen
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.
Naoto Fukasawa
Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
Otl Aicher
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
Pablo Picasso
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
Everything is design. Everything!
Paul Rand
If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.
Ralf Speth
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
Ralph Caplan
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Robert L. Peters
Design is where science and art break even.
Robin Mathews
There is only one type of designer – the type that cares about type.
Rohan Nanavati
Bad design shouts at you. Good design is the silent seller.
Shane Meendering
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
Designing a product is designing a relationship.
Steve Rogers
A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.
Steven Pinker
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
Tate Linden
Style is a matter of taste, design a matter of principles.
Thomas Church
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering.
Thomas Manss
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Victor Papanek