“This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.” MenDoeSaidActionLawCausesPlansEffectsDesignPositionEqualConsciousUniversalEternityHarmonyOriginalsKarmaUnconsciousAdjustmentResumes Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.” Has BeensFormPrinciplesAchieveDesignDevelopmentConsciousWelcomeSerenityEffortless Book:Gae Aulenti Source: Gae Aulenti
“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.” PeopleWayGivingAblePurposeOrderCultureUnderstandingGrowthAttitudeTroubleDesignPersonalityEgoGiving UpConsciousPlanningUrgesRootedUtilitarianInner Growth Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.” OrderEffortDesignConsciousToolsMeaningfulIntuitive Author:Victor Papanek
“I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.” LittlesSelfFacesStuffLinesDesignPrideFineEgoConsciousYour FaceSelf ConsciousFine Lines Author:Shepard Fairey
“The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.” MenSelfSpiritLostLove IsPlansBloodDesignBirdConsciousAnd LoveFollowingFlightDesertLiving My LifeFadedAboriginalNomad Author:Laurens van der Post
“Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.” ShouldValuesDesignConsciousUglyRejected Author:Paola Antonelli
“To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech: it is an ordinary physical activity pushed to a conscious edge. That interference with the given world can still be founded on admiration. Where it is not, what is the point of designing at all?” ThinkingWorldWritingMeanStillsMightGivenDesignActivitySpeechOrdinaryConsciousEdgesAdmirationInterfereInterferencePhysical Activity Author:Robert Bringhurst
“I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.” UsedDesignConsciousJackets Author:Steven Amsterdam
“I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.” EnvironmentDesignConscious Author:Michael Bierut
“The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude.” DesignPureConsciousElectionBeachPresidentialOutcomesButterflyPalmsManipulateCountyBallotsNotoriousPresidential ElectionIneptitudePalm Beach Author:Michael Bierut