The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Good design is good business.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

Design is an unknown.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

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

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

Space is the breath of art.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

To 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.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Good design doesn't date.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Luck is the residue of design.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Design is people.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Accessible design is good design.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.