Quotes about Design

“The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.”

“The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.”

“Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.”

“I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.”

“We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.”

“By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.”

“With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.”

“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.”

“Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.”

“I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.”

“A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.”

“When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.”

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

“I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.”

“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.”

“First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.”

“I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.”

“It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.”

“To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.”

“I was a design ethicist at Google, where I studied how do you ethically steer people's thoughts? Because what we don't talk about is how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today.”

“The artist in me cries out for design.”