Design Quotes

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Charles Eames

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

Michael Behe

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

Milton Glaser

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

Ivan Chermayeff

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs

Design is always about synthesis -synthesis of market needs, technology trends, and business needs.

Jim Wicks

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Raymond Loewy

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Otl Aicher

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought thats worth remembering.

Thomas Manss

Graphic designers are, by and large selfish and spoiled. They stubbornly control and individually design things that are generally smaller than them, perfecting to a level appreciated only by people like them. They dont share and play well with others.

Wayne Hunt

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Peter Saville

Design is creativity with strategy.

Rob Curedale

Good ideas turn into good designs fairly quickly. If you catch yourself fiddling too much with colors, borders and treatments to bring a design together, chances are the problem lies somewhere deeper.

Ryan Singer

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.

Mieke Gerritzen