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