Beautiful Design Quotes:

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

- Paul Rand

topic: Art, Simple, Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Inspiring Design

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

source: "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

topic: Design, Absence, Decoration, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood, Interior Design, Architectural Design

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

- Erik Adigard

topic: Philosophy, Design, Crafts, Software Design, Inspirational Design

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

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Business, Memorable, Veneer, Inspiring Business

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathews

topic: Art, Design, Break, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Niece, Software Design, Solved Problems

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

- Paul Rand

topic: Inspirational, Ideas, Goal, Inspirational Design, Good Design

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.

- Paul Rand

source: "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

topic: Death, Art, Simple, Inspirational Graphic Design, Good Design

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

- Massimo Vignelli

source: Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing

topic: Discipline, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Best Design

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

- Jeffrey Veen

topic: Ideas, Design, Normalcy, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

To the designer, great design is beautiful design. A significant amount of effort must be placed into making the product attractive. To the client, great design is effective. It must bring in customers and meet the goals put forth to the designer in the original brief. To the user, great design is functional. It’s easy to read, easy to use and easy to get out of it what was promised Truly great design, then, is when these three perspectives are considered and implemented equally to create a final product that is beautiful, effective and functional.

- Joshua Johnson

topic: Beautiful, Goal, Perspective, Beautiful Design, Great Design

Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Beautiful, Self, Effectiveness, Beautiful Design

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

- Millard Drexler

topic: Beautiful, Practice, Apples, Best Practices, Beautiful Design

I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

- Candice Olson

topic: Beautiful, Philosophy, Home, Simply Love, Beautiful Design

The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus’s philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we’ve been and the people we’ve loved along the way—and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.

- Nate Berkus

topic: Beautiful, Philosophy, Home, Things That Matter, Beautiful Design