Design Quotes

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

~ Philip Johnson

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

~ Oscar Niemeyer

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

~ Paul Rand

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

~ Tadao Ando

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

~ Annie Leibovitz

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

~ Deborra-Lee Furness

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

~ Elon Musk

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

~ Michael Arad

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

~ Tarsem Singh

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

~ Milton Glaser

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

~ Zooey Deschanel

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

~ Mary Lou Jepsen

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

~ John Maeda

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

~ Wesley Morris

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

~ Jeff Hawkins

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

~ Ben Parr

I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch.

~ Godfrey Hounsfield

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

~ Seymour Cray

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

~ Rory Maclean

A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.

~ Gilbert Baker

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.

~ Michael Korda

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

~ Ai Weiwei

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

~ Herbert Simon

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

~ Ryan Bethencourt

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

~ Craig Venter

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

~ Tycho

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

~ James Dyson

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

~ Harold E. Varmus

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

~ Alexa Chung

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

~ James Dyson

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.

~ Pierre Niney

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

~ Alain Ducasse

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

~ Jeremy Scott

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.

~ Stefan Sagmeister

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

~ Stephen Hawking

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

~ Coco Chanel

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

~ Stephen Gardiner

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

~ Bob Dylan