Design Quotes

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

John Caudwell

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

James Dyson

I don't design down to a price.

James Dyson

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

James Dyson

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

John Dyer

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users w...

James Fallows

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

Jasmine Guinness

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Jesse James Garrett

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Jefferson Han

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Jim Henson

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to cr...

John Van Hamersveld

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Jonathan Hickman

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

Jonathan Ive

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Jonathan Ive

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

Jonathan Ive

Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

Jonathan Ive

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Jonathan Ive

I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.

Joe Jonas

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Jeffrey Kluger

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

John Katzman

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

Jaime Lerner