34 quotes
“Design is not for philosophy its for life”
— Issey Miyake
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape from”
— Seth Godin
“If you do not design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses plan and guess what they have planned for you not much”
— Jim Rohn
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”
— Eero Saarinen
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“Design is thinking made visual”
— Saul Bass
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design and in life simplicity cures it”
— Dieter Rams
“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces it”
— Pierre Bonnard
“Design is not just what it looks like design is how it works and the best designs work simply”
— Steve Jobs
“I wanted to be an Olympic skater I wanted to be an editor at Vogue every failure led me to fashion design”
— Vera Wang
“Good design is as little design as possible”
“Super Normal is the result of a long tradition of evolutionary advancement in the shape of everyday things”
— Jasper Morrison
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Less but better is the essence of good design and good living”
“Less but better”
“Simple can be harder than complex”
“The details are not the details they make the design”
— Charles Eames
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful”
— John Maeda
“Design is not for philosophy it is for life”
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.”
— Freeman Dyson
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
— William Morris
“Space and light and order are things that men need just as much as bread or a place to sleep”
— Le Corbusier
“The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness”
— Massimo Vignelli
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“Art has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a bus”
— David Hockney
“Design dissolving in behavior is the most supreme form of design”
— Naoto Fukasawa
“If you dont design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses plan”
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Design is so simple that is why it is so complicated”
— Paul Rand
“I do not design clothes I design dreams and sometimes those dreams start as failures”
— Ralph Lauren
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