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Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.
The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.
I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.
Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.
If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.