Design Quotes
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- Beech0
great quotes Jaline ... I love that jean Muir one ... and T.S. Elliot was a dude
*decides not to eat the peach
- ********0
"design is 90 percent theft"
anon
- version30
"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
Leo Burnett"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
Lewis Carroll"Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity."
Jenaiha Woods"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
Henry David Thoreau"Variety is not the spice of life; it is the very stuff of it."
Christopher Burney, Solitary Confinement, 1952."Water which is too pure has no fish."
Ts'ai Ken T'an"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent van Gogh"An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
Daniel Boorstin, quoted in Randall Rothenberg, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story, 1994."Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."
Leonardo da Vinci"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
John Constable (1776 - 1837)"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
Dr Edwin Land"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914).
- blackspade0
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" "There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin
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- controlcard0
"People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing."
—Paola Antonelli, Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York, in "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" in Wired, January 2001
- flash_me0
When in dought copy.
- Steven Tapia
- Solid0
"What is best in life [or design]?"
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
- Conan the barbarian, as told by Solid
- NegativeSpace0
"What is simple should be treated simply, what is difficult should be reduced to the simplest terms."|
Josef Müller-Brockmann
- liquid0
I was asking...thanks for telling me now I know...
I just knew that a noob wouldnt post as much as you do....
great quotes people keep em coming.... no more talking in this thread.. :-).
- clerk0
"The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has
been accomplished." - George Bernard Shaw
- clerk0
"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
- spongebob0
"No talking in this thread."
-liquid, talking in the thread
- ShaggDeluxe0
"fuck context"
-Rem Koolhas
- _smk0
"Less is more"
- Mies van der Rohe
(Solid)"Just enough is more"
- Milton Glaser:) always liked that one.
- Bluejam0
Consumption is a treatable disease
- Tibor Kalman
- spongebob0
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel(I'll settle for the woman without the dress)
- spongebob0
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
-Bill Blass
- spongebob0
Charles Eames Quotes
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles EamesRecognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles EamesThe details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles EamesThe details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles EamesThe recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over.
Charles EamesTo whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles EamesWho ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames
- druze0
"90% of all design is copied from someone else" - some hack.
- jamble0
"Can you make it more interactive and animated"
Various clients