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