Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner
Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson
Design works if it’s authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can’t be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson
I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn’t endure.
Robin Day
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Mike Davidson
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik
I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Marc Newson
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange
I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Marc Newson
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik
Design is people.
Jane Jacobs
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold.
James Randolph Adams
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon
Design is not for philosophy it’s for life.
Issey Miyake
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff
Good design doesn’t date.
Harry Seidler
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff
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.
Giorgio Armani
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Gianni Versace
Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Donald Norman
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Diane von Furstenberg
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
Daniel Libeskind
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.
David McFadden
Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey
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-Exupery
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs