Quotes about design
design maps information
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. Edward Tufte
design understanding tests
The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.
design standards democratic
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
design rescue
Design cannot rescue failed content.
design politics committees
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. Henry Spencer
design desire virtue
The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
design luck suffering
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse. Heidi Julavits
design designer ill
The ill design is most ill for the designer. Hesiod
design zeus hard
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
design looks want
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs. Herodotus
design elements ensemble
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. Henry Petroski
design decision decision-making
Design is nothing if not decision making.
design-process vocabulary study
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
design care action
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. Henry Fielding
designer british mario
I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. Naomie Harris
design pretending
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. Napoleon Bonaparte
design pieces world
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. Norman Spinrad
design world want
The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world. Norman Mailer
design evolution blunders
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. Oliver Sacks
design poet epitaph
Poet: gardener of epitaphs. Octavio Paz
design ends worthy
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. Mary Astell
design target roles
The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone. Michael Graves
design matter good-design
I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
design feel-good mind
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good
design narrative stories
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
design architecture affair
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
design fields labor
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor Theodore Parker
design painting modern
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. Theodore Roosevelt
design interior-design interiors
I've always loved interior design. Genie Francis
design simplicity east
When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern. Genevieve Gorder
designer hard havens
I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.
design emphasis year
The emphasis for this year will be the design of that building.
design actors accidents
I became an actor by accident, not by design. James Lipton