Tuesday, March 2, 2010

My favorite inspirational quotes about design

I have always collected design and arts inspirational quotes because Simple quotes can hold timeless and moving lessons. We are so lucky that we have a lot of exceptional people who have this curious habit to inspire us with their tremendous quotes. So i read those quotes again and again and I think it makes my work more powerful. That’s why I share this quotes collection and hope you will be inspire as I am .


Brenda Laurel
A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.

Frank Chimero
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

Steve Rogers
Designing a product is designing a relationship.

Henrik Fiskar
If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art.

Robynne Raye
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.

James Randolph Adams
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Charles Eames
Design is an expression of the purpose, and it may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art; design depends largely on constraints and it is a method of action (there are always constraints and these usually include ethic).

Clement Mok
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.

Freeman Thomas
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Milton Glaser
There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.

Jenaiha Woods
Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.


Massimo Vignelli
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

Steve Jobs
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Robin Mathew
Design is where science and art break even.

David Carson
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Good design is good business.

What’s your favourite quote? Share your thoughts by your valuable comment.

1 comment:

  1. I liked James Adams, Milton Glaser and of course the late Steve Jobs' quotes. This would be the things I'd aim for in life. And for web designers, the chance to WOW in every project they make.

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