D Quotes
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“Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.”
“Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.”
Source: Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World
“Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.”
“Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.”
“Designers need to know only two things. How to design and what to design.”
“Designers need to understand various perspectives that exist in the world—and to be able to speak many different “languages” in order to translate these ideas in meaningful ways.”
Source: Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.”
Source: Thinking with Type
“Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.”
“Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.”
“Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.”
Source: Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects
“Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.”
“Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.”
“Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.”
“Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.”
“Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them”
Source: Barnbrook Bible: The Graphic Design of Jonathan Barnbrook
“Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead of punished. Risk taking is the norm instead of the exception. Some companies have already embraced this type of culture change with impressive results.”
“Designing a comfortable day to day routine is the groundwork for needed stability and security in an unstructured world.”
Source: Creative Retirement for Women
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”
Source: Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
“Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'”
“Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.”
“Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.”
“Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.”
“Designing a tour is a daily thing.
I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything”
“Designing a website, app, or logo is similar to designing a national flag. Each colour should have a meaning behind it. Or the colours should match the value you represent.”
“Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is.”
“Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.”
“Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.”
“Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.”
“Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.”
Source: Next Generation Leader
“Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.”
“Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.”
“Designing destiny determines deserved distress, despair, disturbances and Descent. Delightful is Devine’s Destiny.”
“Designing economies based on permaculture design principles is the best way to ensure shared prosperity and an equitable distribution of wealth; not by force, but by design.”
“Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.”
“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.”
“Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.”
“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.”
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.”
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.”
“Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.”
“Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.”
“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.”
“Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.”
“Designing Structures is an art and this needs to be transparent, as designs come and go but creativity stays there”
“designing the ability to operate with fewer customer complaints, less firefighting, and reduced interdepartmental tension brings tremendous hope to leaders and their staffs who may be feeling the pressure from an underperforming value stream.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.”
“Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make.”
“Designing Woman was written for the screen.”
“Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.”
“Designs are a revelation to me. It's like
taking something that is not alive
and giving it form, shape, substance,
and life.”
Source: Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview