Quotes on Good Design

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

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

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

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.

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.

Good design doesn't cost, but it pays.

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

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.