Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
— Charles Eames
Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
— Brian Reed
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
— Massimo Vignelli
People ignore design that ignores people.
— Frank Chimero
I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.
— Thomas Vasquez
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
— Joe Sparano
Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.
— Aaron Russell
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.
— Scott Stevenson
Design is where science and art break even.
— Robin Mathew
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
— Mieke Gerritzen
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.
— Robert L. Peters
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.
— Valerie Pettis
Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.”
— David Craib
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.
— Juan-Carlos Fernàndez
Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.
— Leisa Reichelt
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
— Ellen Lupton
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
— Jeff Smith
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
— Edward Tufte
Design is intelligence made visible.
— Alina Wheeler
Math is easy; design is hard.
— Jeffrey Veen
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.
— Victor Papanek
Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks.
— Suleiman Leadbitter
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
— Paola Antonelli
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
— Tate Linden
Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.
— Chris Pullman
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
— Fabien Barral
Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.
— Matt Beale
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
— Steve Jobs
I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
— Carrie Phillips
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
— Don Norman
Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.
— Drew Davies
Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.
— Noreen Morioka
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
— Robert L. Peters
It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.
— Wouter Stokkel
You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
— Wim Crouwel
I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears.
— Andrew Lewis
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
— Tom Peters
Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.
— Hans Höger
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
— Milton Glaser
I find modernist design boring, but it so much faster!
— Christine Suewon Lee
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
— Sir Alec Issigonis
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
— Leo Frankowski
For me, design is like choosing what I’m going to wear for the day - only much more complicated and not really the same at all.
— Robynne Raye
Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social responsibility. Good design allows “form to complement performance.” The way things look is not irrelevant to the way things work: how they work is how they should look.
— Thomas F. Schutte
Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.
— Colin Wright
Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work.
— Noreen Morioka
I would show my my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: “That’s nice dear.” And then she would say, “Did you write it?” or “Did you do the drawing?” or “Did you take the pictures?” I’d always answer “no,” then I realized the problem. My answer was then, “I made this happen. It’s called design.”
— Brian Webb
Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.
— Dan Brown
Technology over technique produces emotionless design.
— Daniel Mall
I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design.
— Mark Boulton
A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.
— Brenda Laurel/p>
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
— Massimo Vignelli
If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art.
— Henrik Fiskar
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.
— Frank Chimero
A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words.
— Mandy Brown
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
— David Carson
The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.
— Scott Hanselman
Practice safe design: Use a concept.
— Petrula Vrontikis
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
— Orson Welles
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
— Raymond Loewy
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
— Eliel Saarinen
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
— David Lewis
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.
— Chris Bangle
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
— Steve Jobs
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
— Erik Adigard
To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.
— Ayse Birsel
— Ivan Chermayeff
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
— Adrian Forty
Many things difficult to design prove easy to perform.
— Samuel Johnson
The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet.
— Douglas Martin
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. Everyone makes design decisions all the time without realizing it—like Moliere’s M. Jourdain who discovered he had been speaking prose all his life—and good design is simply the result of making these decisions consciously, at the right stage, and in consultation with others as the need arises.
— Douglas Martin
Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.
— Marty Neumeier
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
— Victor Papanek
Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.
— Tim Parsey
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. He new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
— Paul Rand
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
— Paul Rand
Designing a product is designing a relationship.
— Steve Rogers
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience’s role in it will be.
— Edwin Schlossberg
Good design is good business.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head.
— Jon Wozencraft
Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
— Erik Adigard
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.
— Richard Saul Wurman
http://designwashere.com/80-inspiring-quotes-about-design/
Steve Jobs brought a technological revolution, changing the world as we know it. He not only changed the way we work but also the way we live and how we communicate. Sadly, this remarkable founder of Apple Inc. is no longer with us. Nothing can be said to possibly fill the void left behind. Though his death is sadly mourned, we cherish the years of technological revolution he created for us. His legacy will live on through his creations.
Steve Jobs was one of the best entrepreneurs, IT enthusiasts and innovators. He is not only an inspiration for tech lovers but also for graphic designers. Designers can learn a great deal from him.
To inspire our graphic designers, I have compiled seven inspirational quotes by Steve Jobs. I will explain how each quote teaches us about the essence of designing as well.
Usability: Steve Jobs made sure that his products were not only visually appealing but also practical. This usability factor is something all graphic designers can apply to their work. Whether you are a logo designer, a web designer or just a graphic designer – whatever you create must stand out while effectively promoting the client’s message. The products that Steve Jobs created not only look and feel good, but each works like none other. These aspects make each creation always in-demand.
Research and Understand: Before starting to work on any design, designers should always conduct proper research and spend time learning the client’s business and industry. Unfortunately, this is the step that most designers often miss and end up creating amateur designs. Researching about the client’s industry leads to understanding the design demands. Thus you will come up with even better ideas to share with the client.
Innovative Designing: To be a leader in your field you mustn’t follow anyone. You must use your creative talent to make innovative designs that will inspire others. Many new graphic designers find it easier to createdesigns based on derivative work, rather than utilizing their own imagination. This might appear to save you time and effort but instead it leads to losing credibility as a graphic designer. If you are not a unique designer, then how do you expect to be a leader in the design world? Apple was founded not just out of technical ingenuity, but out of innovative and challenging ideas.
Customer Satisfaction: This is what we stress regularly to our designers – Don’t just listen to your client, discuss your ideas with them. Share your thoughts and provide your clients with multiple drafts when creating a design. Remember, clients are not exactly design experts.
While they know what they want, your creative input and ideas can help them see a whole new approach. Aside from sticking to the design brief, show the client some other ideas that you think may work best for their business. This simple effort will gain your client’s admiration and help you stand out as a designer.
Simplicity: Simplicity is that one design rule that you should never overlook. While a complex design appears to be all that, it typically isn’t appreciated by anyone. Simplicity is a hard goal to achieve.
If your design is too simple, it might lose its appeal. Making your design too busy and you could confuse the viewers. When designing, be sure to create a balance and always search for feedback. Ask friends to give you critical, as well as positive, feedback. This way you can learn and develop your design power.
Passion for Work: This quote doesn’t need any further explanation. Do you love what you do? If you do, then you are obviously more passionate. You may also be more inclined to put in the hard work, not just for monetary benefits, but for self satisfaction.
For those who don’t love what they do, they may not establish a strong position in their field of work. Passion is the force behind any great work. If you love what you do, then you will not look at it as work but you will be satisfied from doing your best.
Never Give Up: It takes years of hard work, dedication and patience to reach a successful destination. When Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985, he didn’t give up. Instead he went on to start another company called ‘Next.’ He continued to work hard and within a year he was back at ‘Apple.’ It has been said the company was incomplete without him.
As a designer, you might not succeed in the first few attempts. At times it might take over a couple dozen attempts to win a contest but, the important thing is not to give up but to keep trying. Remember, you don’t really fail until you give up.
No one can replace a great innovator like Steve Jobs. He left a permanent mark in our minds and our lives with his extraordinary creation and will always be remembered. On behalf of the MycroBurst community I would like to extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
Thank you Steve Jobs for the legacy you left behind for all of us. You will be missed.
http://onthecloud.mycroburst.com/7-inspirational-steve-jobs-quotes-for-designers/
Picasso Type – Quote by Picasso
Design’s fundamental role is problem solver.
- Fast Company, 2005
Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
- Erik Adigard
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs, 2003
Pablo Picasso
If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
- Red Adair
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head.
- Jon Wozencraft
Dead Serious
Good design is good business.
- Thomas J. Watson Jr.
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
- Victor Papanek
A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.
- Brenda Laurel
Creativity
You are what you are seen to be.
- Erik Spiekermann
To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.
- Ayse Birsel
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Sweet In The Sour
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
- David Lewis
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
- Orson Welles
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso
Excellence – Aristotle
Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is solving them.
- Bryan Lawson
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
- Judy Garland
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
- Tom Waits
Person You Are
Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
- Otl Aicher
Color is a creative element, not a trimming.
- Piet Zwart
Sometimes you can draw more inspiration from the people who don’t believe in you, then from the ones who do.
- William Childs
You Learn Something New Everyday
Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
Design is where science and art break even.
- Robin Mathew
I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
- Carrie Philips
Typography
The definition of an expert is someone who knows what not to do.
- Charles Willson
Practice safe design: Use a concept.
- Petrula Vrontikis
Just because something looks good doesn’t mean it’s useful. And just because something is useful does not make it beautiful.
- Joshua Brewer
Never Tell Me
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
- Mieke Gerritzen
When you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.
- Jared M. Spool
If you’re more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.
- Don Norman
Life Is…
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.
- Kent Beck
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design.
- Stefan Sagmeister
I don’t think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.
- Johanna Drucker
The Only Thing Worse
Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.
- Jenaiha Woods
Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away.
- Paul Jacques Grillo
Fight With Tools
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work & an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Llyod Wright
Design is creativity with strategy.
- Rob Curedale
There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison
BeAmazing
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
- Tate Linden
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
- Emil Ruder
Wisdom is to knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
- David Starr
Compassion Will Cure…
Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.
- Hans Hger
Imitation may be the “sincerest form of plagiarism,” but it is also the mark of an inferior person.
- David Ogilvy
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
- Paul Klee
Rising Sun
Some designers create things to show you what they did. I design things to tell you what I solved.
- Brian Yerkes
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
- John Gruber
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Quotation 6
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl S. Buck
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.
- Chris Bangle
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
- Neil Gaiman
Mr.Mandela Said…
Designing a product is designing a relationship.
- Steve Rogers
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
- Milton Glaser
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso
Reminders
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
- Ralph Lauren
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
- Charles Eames
Worth Having
We hope you can be inspired and motivated by the quotes in this post. Join and tell us which is your favorite one or if you have your own quotes, feel free to write it down on the comments. In the meantime here’s mine.
You can’t reach the top before you start climbing from the bottom
- Ari Suardiyanti
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/designer-quotes-mindsets-inspiration/
TYPOGRAPHY IS ALWAYS INSPIRING. SOME OF THE BEST ADVICE IN THE WORLD IS SPREAD VIA QUOTES, DESIGNERS ALWAYS LOOK FOR INSPIRATION TO SPARK OUR CREATIVE MINDS AND THE BEST PLACE TO LOOK IS IN THE MINDS OF GREAT ARTISTS THEMSELVES.
It is from their words of wisdom, the world is becoming better each day. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The designer should possess the skill finding just the right font, size, spacing, placing them in a right place or order. Any designer just require considerable time and attention towards the design. In addition to typography, color is also a major aspects in the success of the design. Some designers take it to the next level by creating absolutely stunning works of art using typography which is quite memorable and will stand the test of times.
IF YOU CAN SEE BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING, YOU ARE AN ARTIST.
TYPOGRAPHY HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN, RESPECT IT.
TO BE INSPIRED IS GREAT, TO INSPIRE IS INCREDIBLE
WHEN IN DOUBT, DIVE HEAD FIRST.
YOU KNOW YOU HAVE EVERYTHING, WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE
ALL THOSE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST IN TIME
A PICTURE PAINTS A 1000 WORDS
NOTHING IS ORIGINAL
HAPPINESS DEPENDS UPON OUR SELFS
SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE FORM OF SOPHISTICATION
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND LIFE
BE ART
THE PERSON YOU LOVE IS 72.8% WATER
DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND SUCCESS WOULD FOLLOW
DESIGNERS ARE MEANT TO BE LOVED, NOT UNDERSTOOD.
DESIGNERS ARE MEANT TO BE LOVED, NOT TO BE UNDERSTOOD
JUST WASH YOUR HANDS, IT’S NOT SO HARD.
IF YOU TRY TO BE SOMETHING THAT YOU’RE NOT YOU’LL END UP BEING NOTHING
GLORY IS FLEETING, BUT OBSCURITY IS FOREVER.
DESIGN IS THINKING MADE VISUAL
NOTHING CAN STOP A GOOD IDEA
RULES CAN BE BROKEN BUT NEVER IGNORED
THE ONLY TIME YOU RUN OUT OF CHANCES IS WHEN YOU STOP TAKING THEM
IF YOU’RE NOT INNOVATING, YOU’RE DETERIORATING.
THE BEST TEACHERS DON’T GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS
THE ESSENTIAL PART OF CREATIVITY IS NOT BEING AFRAID TO FAIL.
http://www.icanbecreative.com/inpirational-design-typographic-quotes.html
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