(2172 quotes found)
“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
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”
David Hockney
“Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.”
Erma Bombeck
“God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.”
Dave Barry
“People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.”
David Mamet
“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”
B. F. Skinner
“The designer... has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists... the designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.”
David Kelley
“Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.”
David McFadden
“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”
Tom Peters
