You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

The whole design is to get them back in school. It’s really designed to help kids get back on track.

If the statistics are boring, then you’ve got the wrong numbers.

When you’re working at the forefront of creative design, you have to borrow from history. The trick is to draw from a past era and reinterpret it.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

When the image is new, the world is new.

To have a style is to be stuck.

Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.

Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.

…But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much...

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and...

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the ‘blind watchmaker’ of natural selection with the real human one. ‘A true...

Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest...

He has suffused the entire design with a light and transparency that is truly extraordinary.

That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the ‘Origin of Species’ was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly understood, had received its deathblow at Mr. Darwin’s hands. For the...

Designing an airplane and modeling it after an ostrich is a stretch, but I’ve always been flexible.

This is my logo for Mike

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity–say, while waiting to be called to eat–becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are...

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

She wanted to help people and she wanted to design displays and work in retail.

We will not design a vehicle for old people specifically.

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental...

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?

In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

Beauty of office, is profession in place

The design of the enclosure was thoroughly researched drawing on the knowledge of the world’s leading reptile experts, but sadly this individual female dragon’s agility far exceed our expectations and research,

A quilt is like a sandwich. The top layer is the design layer. When people look at a quilt, they’re responding to that design and color.

I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

So, you don’t have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?Here’s the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.

Surprisingly, many of our clients who are in their 50s are already planning ahead and incorporating design elements to help in the aging process.

I let the game run its course, but I already have my design in my head. I know that in the late innings there’s going to be more pressure, but it was designed for the...

I’ll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.

Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.

For a brief period of time the American electric-sign industry looked beyond its most immediate market and collaborated with store designers and architects in creating a style which became known as ‘stream-line.’ Later it became...

My philosophy is, if you do a simple, livable design, it will stand out. So many designers like to do layer upon layer. We take a much more simple approach.

Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped / As by design, to bring us / Face to face with the flag of our true country: / Violet-yellow, black-violet, / Its heart sucked by slow...

Een kunstenaar is een designer die kan aantonen dat hij geleden heeft.

Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!

Design is not for philosophy it’s for life.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It’s more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God’s programming.

Design engineers are going to design the roadway to minimize impacts. Some people might say, my home or barn or business is directly under that line. Well, once the designers start, they might be able...

Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.