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

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

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

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

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

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

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