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“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.”

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Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.”

“There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!”

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Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.”

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Author:Dieter Rams

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

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.”

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Author:Brian Froud

“Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.”

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Author:Paula Scher

“Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.”

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Author:Paula Scher

“Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”

Thinking Men Firsts Looks May Said Different Seems Might Purpose Wise Design Keys Fit Shapes Opposites Function Useless Locks Glances Examination True Nature Lock And Key

Book:Mistborn Trilogy

Source: Mistborn Trilogy

“Form ever follows function.”

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Author:Louis Sullivan

“My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function”

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Book:Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Source: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

“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.”

“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.”

“Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.”

Needs Trying Reality Asks Effort Design Materials Function Suits Consideration

Author:Gianfranco Frattini

“With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.”

Form Process Design Flow Function Bases Entity Comprehension

Book:Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes

Source: Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes

“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.”

Ideas Problem Understanding Design Communication Higher Easier Essentials Function Complexes Profession Data Visuals Our Society Retention Complex Problems Auditory

Author:Will Burtin

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

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Book:Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow

Source: Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow

“Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.”

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Author:Sara Little Turnbull

“Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.”

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Author:Terence Conran

“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

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Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art