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- laurus
Here are some designer’s and design related quotes I collected over the years, some are from the “world design” book.
”I wanted every spread you opened to be a poster“ — Neville Brody.
Some prophesies fulfill themselves:
”One cannot communicate anything“ — DAVID CAR5ONThe last part of this statement is sad, but true:
”Video has recorded the movie, Taped music has become more than live performance. Advertising has sublimated the product“ - Nigel Coates”Basically it is a matter of making our customers successful“ - Hartmut Esslinger
”In America I brazenly sell my jeans for $50. If you think about it, $50 is not a lot to pay for a lovely ass“ — Elio Fiorucci
”America is the only country where you can go from barbarism to decadence, without passing culture“ — Anonymous
”The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism“ — Walter Gropius
”Design is the art that combines consumer needs with the possibilities of industrial production“ — Olavi LindÈn
This guy has not heard of the WWF:
”Ugliness sells badly“ — Raymond F. Loewy”Less is more“ — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Utopian vision:
”The first rule for a designer is to find the right customer“ — Massimo Morozzi”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been hatred of modern civilization“ — William Morris
”It is a marketing ploy of huge dimensions, calculated to sell a product by covering it with a skin which smells of design. No one finds this smell as bad as the designer, whose good intensions are sliced in two and sprayed matte black“ — Jasper Morrison
"A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design“ — Verner Panton
”When you chop wood, splinters fly“ — Joseph Stalin
"There will be no post-modern design“ — Pentagon
Amen."All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first“ — Mary Quant
"We don't expect everyone to become expert designers. That is neither possible nor desirable. We cannot all become accountants, but we can learn to read a balance sheet“ — Gordon Russell
"Having an idea is something that cannot be learned anywhere“ — Richard Snapper
"For fifty years function has been considered an established concept when in fact it has never been fully understood“ –Borek Sipek
"I am not taken in by good form“ — Ettore Sottsass
"Design does not really interest me“ — Philippe Starck
"Less is bore“ — Robert Venturi
My favourites:
”Affluence offers the kind of freedom that I am deeply suspicious of. It offers freedom from restraint, and it is virtually impossible to do something without restraints“ — Charles Eames
”Decoration is disguise“ — La Corbusier
"I want to make things that recede into the background“ — Dieter Rams
This is from the guy that when someone complained that the ceiling he designed was leaking on a dinner guest said; "tell him to move the chair" :
"Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge“ — Frank Lloyd Wright”Taste is the enemy of creativity“ — Pablo Picasso
”Good artists borrow, great artists steal“ — Pablo Picasso
” I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.“ — Pablo Picasso.
”Consumer culture is contradiction in terms“ — Tibor Kalman
”The white spaces inside the letter are more important than its external outline“ — Adrian Frutinger
"Don't do what you know, do what makes sense“ — anonymous
My absolute favorite:
"There is no problem only solutions“ — John Ono Lennon
Some others:
” if you build it they will come, and they will probably make you move it“ — anonymous 3D designer
”Jakob Nielsen will die after the revolution :) “ — El Capitan
”Give me ten more minutes“. — Anders R.
“I don’t like green“ — the client
- Mimio0
I read them. Now let me love you.
- davetufts0
those are great - thanks so much.
(the only one I don't like is about America not having culture - totally false.)
- mongo0
trying is the first step to failure.
homer
- ribit0
what are those red lines on long posts? do we pay per inch here or something?
- jox0
yes, but im well hung so i hang out for free.