Design Quotes

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

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

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

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.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I've always loved interior design.