Quotes on Design Inspiration

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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

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

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.