Design Quotes

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames

Condition, Primary

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Love, Beauty, Making

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

Simple, Beginnings, Instrument

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Life, Philosophy

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

Rest, Madness, Half

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Greatest, Matter, Social

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

Until, Designer

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens

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.
Tadao Ando

Experience, Together, Body

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

Good, Experience, Thinking

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand

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

Everything, Body

The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen

Factor, Primary

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Diane von Furstenberg

Good design doesn't date.
Harry Seidler

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

Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer

Good, Accessible

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

Single, Opinion, Everyone

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Herbert Simon

Science, Study, Mankind

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
Genevieve Gorder

Great, Joy, Making

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

Live, Important, Century

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
Mitchell Kapor

Technology, Human, Together

Design is people.
Jane Jacobs

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head

Good, Her, Star

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

Thought, Easy, Order

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