Quotes on Design

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

Good design doesn't cost, but it pays.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.