Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old designer quotes, designer sayings, and designer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Good design is good business.Ian Schrager
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Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.Tate Linden
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Design is where science and art break even.Robin Mathews
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Design is people.Jane Jacobs
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Steve Jobs
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A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.Steven Pinker
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The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the invisible visible.Hillman Curtis
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Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.Robert L. Peters
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There is only one type of designer – the type that cares about type.Rohan Nanavati
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.Harry Bertoia
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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.Thomas J. Watson
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Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn't theirs.Frank Chimero
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The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.Massimo Vignelli
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Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.John Hockenberry
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People ignore design that ignores people.Frank Chimero
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Bad design shouts at you. Good design is the silent seller.Shane Meendering
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Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.unknown
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Design cannot rescue failed content.Edward R. Tufte
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Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.Dieter Rams
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If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.Ralf Speth
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Good art inspires; Good design motivates.Otl Aicher
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Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.Brian Reed
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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.Jeffrey Zeldman
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Every great design begins with an even better story.Lorinda Mamo
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The function of design is letting design function.Micha Commeren
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If you can design one thing, you can design everything.Massimo Vignelli
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You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.I.M. Pei
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Good designers copy; great designers steal.Pablo Picasso
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Design is a formal response to a strategic question.Mariona Lopez
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The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design.Adam Judge
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.Bruno Munari
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.Victor Papanek
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Design means being good, not just looking good.Clement Mok
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There is no better designer than nature.Alexander McQueen
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Design is inteliigence made visible.Alina Wheeler
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Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.Ralph Caplan
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.Donna Karan
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Everything is design. Everything!Paul Rand
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Design is not for philosophy, it's for life.Issey Miyake
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Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.Naoto Fukasawa
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Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.Juan-Carlos Fernandez
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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.Paul Rand
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Style is a matter of taste, design a matter of principles.Thomas Church
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Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.Joe Sparano
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To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.Thomas Manss
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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-Exupéry
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Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.Mieke Gerritzen
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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.Charles Eames
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Designing a product is designing a relationship.Steve Rogers
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.Dieter Rams