Inspiring Design Quotes:

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Inspiring, Success, Writing, Software Design, Inspirational 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

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

- Massimo Vignelli

topic: Fashion, Fighting, Doctors, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathews

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

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

- Neville Brody

topic: Design, Digital, Painting, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

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

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

- Edwin Land

source: "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Failure, Creative People, Innovation And Business

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

- Robert L. Peters

topic: Design, Shapes, Culture, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic 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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Business, Making A Living, Life Is Simple

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

- Paul Cookson

topic: Technology, Design, Employee, Inspiring Design, Web Design

Websites should look good from the inside and out.

- Paul Cookson

topic: Technology, Design, Looks, Inspiring Design, Web Design

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

- David Carson

topic: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspiring Design

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

- Paul Rand

source: Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

topic: Technology, Design, Reassuring, Inspirational Design, Inspiring Design

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Software Design, Inspirational Design

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Success, Teaching, Data, Inspiring Design, Student Motivation

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

- Dieter Rams

source: "Basics Design 01: Format: Second Edition" by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, A&C Black, (p. 151), May 1, 2012.

topic: Meaningful, Memorable, Design, Inspiring Design, Good Design

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

- Pierre Bonnard

topic: Death, Color, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

- Chip Kidd

source: Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

topic: Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, Mean, Thinking, Inspirational Graphic Design, Inspiring Design

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Teacher, Inspiring Design, Speaking Well

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

- Milton Glaser

topic: Mean, Design, Masters, Inspiring Design, Design And Art

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

- Paula Scher

topic: Mistake, Order, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

- Jared Spool

topic: Giving, Design, Superpower, Inspiring Design, Web Design