Favourite design quotations...
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- ********
I trying to find some good quotes about design - do any of you know any good ones?
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- baseline_shift0
For good design you pay only once. For bad design you never stop paying.
-someone i forget
- phatlee0
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee"
- we call stuff camels all the time around herebaseline_shift
- monospaced0
To quote means to repeat the exact words of another with the acknowledgement of the source.
A quotation is a phrase or a sentence from a book or a speech that reflects the author's profound thoughts.
Often the words quote and quotation are used as substitutes for each other. Quote is a verb and Quotation is a noun. So, in effect, you quote a quotation.
Despite that, using quote instead of quotation is so prevalent that it is sometimes considered acceptable. So, you will find terms like: love quotes, inspiration quotes, funny quotes...
- I was actually curious because lukus_W used both forms of the word and I didn't know which was correctmonospaced
- fair enough - to be honest I was hedging my bets********
- I'm still a bit confused, to be honest. Not that I REALLY care anyways. Carry on.monospaced
- Bluejam0
"Good designers (and writers and artists) make trouble."
Tibor Kalman
- Bluejam0
"A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water."
Alan Fletcher
- grunttt0
"Make it pop!"
-too many
- phatlee0
"You can't polish a turd!"
- <monospaced
- you can, but it'll still be shitmonospaced
- mythbusters proved it untrue. You can actually polish a turn using doradangoKiko
- phatlee0
"Pay peanuts, get monkey's!"
- MSTRPLN0
"20K"
- iheartfun0
"You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them."
WD
- baseline_shift0
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
- Howard Aiken
- vaxorcist0
"Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."
- David Ogilvy
- bump790
"The client's always wrong, the designer's ALWAYS right!" -bump79
- miesvan0
"1) If this area represents the interest and concern of the design office.
2) and this the area of genuine interest to the client.
3) and this the concerns of society as a whole.
4) then it is in this area of overlapping interest and concern that the designer can work with conviction and enthusiasm.
NOTE: these areas are not static -- they grow and develop as each one influences the others.
NOTE: putting more than one client in the model builds the relationship -- in a positive and constructive way."
- ideaist0
"Insist Upon Yourself; Be Original" - Ralph Waldo Emerson...
- ideaist0
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." - Albert Einstein
- ideaist0
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you." - Banksy
- mathinc0
"Dear Pat,
You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, "Why don't you make something for me?"
I asked you what you wanted, and you said, "A box."
"What for?"
"To put things in."
"What things?"
"Whatever you have," you said.Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it's not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts- the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.
And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you.
And still the box is not full."
John Steinbeck
(inset from East of Eden)
