Design Quotes

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

David Carson

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

David Chipperfield

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

David Chipperfield

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

David Chipperfield

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Dennis Conner

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

Donald Wills Douglas

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Drew Endy

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Diane von Furstenberg

My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

Diane von Furstenberg

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Diane von Furstenberg

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Ston...

Dhani Harrison

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

Donna Karan

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Daniel Libeskind

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

Daniel Libeskind

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Daniel Keys Moran

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magic...

David McCandless

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

David McFadden

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

David Milne

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Donald Norman

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Donald Norman