Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

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

Nature should be idealised not copied.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

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.

We interrogate the world by making.

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

In Paley’s famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held to be evidence that the watch was specially contrived to that...

Design is body language for inanimate objects.

This has been an ongoing design goal of ours,

What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and...

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

You want me to explain myself! give me a brush, not a pen

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

It’s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how...

Real artists ship.

Accident is nature’s way of starting a design; design is a man’s way of looking at the accidents.

Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another.

Strip your website down to the basics and do a few things really well.

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God doesn’t create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

For me, it’s color and design. There’s the group aspect to it, too.

A person is not a closed system, they can never be fully self-sufficient. We need each other because we cannot make everything ourselves. Everything was invented, but it was not done alone, so we should...

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe...

Weaver’s Cove has established that the smaller tankers will be feasible from a design and navigational standpoint.

We haven’t had any talks with Ottawa lately and that’s kind of been by design because we’re not in any hurry,

When a unique condo design comes on the market, it does sell really quickly. It’s quite true that they’re getting better. We’re seeing better detail and they’re more appealing.

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its predecessor, it lends certain neighbouring forms a formal radicalism, which attempts to borrow...

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...

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