Design sayings

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◆ Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

- Paul Rand99

◆ To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

- Milton Glaser99

◆ I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

- Ralph Lauren99

◆ Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

- Pierre Bonnard99

◆ Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

- William Butler Yeats99

◆ The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

- Leo Fender99

◆ The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

- Arthur Erickson99

◆ Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

- Kenzo Tange99

◆ The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

- Herbert Simon99

◆ Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

- Thomas J. Watson99

◆ Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

- Ron Johnson99

◆ Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

- Paul Rand99

◆ Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.

- Fad Ibra99

◆ If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

- Jim Rohn99

◆ So far, designing is the most exciting thing Ive done¦ I have a vision of what I want [the clothes] to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

- Kim Kardashian99