Great Design Quotes

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

A single word often betrays a great design.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

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

Great design should tell a story.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

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

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Every now and then the stars align,
Boy and girl meet by the great design,
Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones?
Everybody told me love was blind,
Then I saw your face
and you blew my mind,
Finally you and me are the lucky ones, this time

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

Really successful designs can be created without software produced “special effects.” Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so “special” treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

But I’m blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.