Design Quotations

The details are not the details. They make the design.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

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

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like him to design me a house. I'd love to be in the countryside when I'm older.

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

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

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

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

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

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

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

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.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

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

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

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.