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Design Quotes

On design as history, craft, and a single creative umbrella.

A few quotes here take a long historical view, tracing design back to early stone tools and ancient flutes long before the word itself existed. For more, see Creativity quotes.

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

Quotes by Jane McGonigal

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

Quotes by Jan Chipchase

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

Quotes by Jamie Oliver

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

Quotes by Jamie Dimon

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

Quotes by Jamie Bamber

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

Quotes by James Wan

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Quotes by James Wolcott

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what...

Quotes by James Fallows

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the...

Quotes by James Cameron

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

Quotes by James Blake

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

Quotes by Jamais Cascio

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

Quotes by Jamais Cascio

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Quotes by Jake Barton

The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.

Quotes by Jake Barton

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

Quotes by Jaime Lerner

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

Quotes by Jaime Pressly

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Quotes by Jacque Fresco

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the...

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

Quotes by Jack Dangermond

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about starting out in design through education?
Yes - one quote traces an early path into the field: "After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much," showing that a first design path doesn't always stick.
Is there a quote about design's place in human history?
Yes. One quote takes a long view, explaining that "the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago." It goes on to add, "First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old," tracing design and creativity back through a long human timeline.
Is there a quote about designing buildings that become icons?
Yes - one quote is refreshingly modest about it: "People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok." For more from people who design for a living, see Designer quotes.
Is there a quote about design covering many different fields?
Yes. One quote lists several: "If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella," treating fashion, architecture, and choreography as connected by the same creative process. That broader idea connects well with Creativity quotes.
Where can I find more quotes about the design process?
Take a look at Designing quotes and Designate quotes for more related reading.

Others describe design as one connected discipline - buildings, clothing, and choreography all falling under the same creative umbrella. Related pages: Designer quotes and Designing quotes.