Quotes
“In design sometimes one plus one equals three.”
Josef Albers.
“It’s not rocket science. It’s social science - the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.”
Clement Mok.
“Everything is design. Everything!”
Paul Rand.
“Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.”
Paola Antonelli, Museum of Modern Art.
“Style = Fart.”
Stefan Sagmeister.
“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
Frank Lloyd Wright.
“Design is as much an expression of feeling as an articulation of reason. It is an art as well as a science, a process and a product, an assertion of disorder, and a display of order.”
Victor Margolin.
“…constraint breeds creatively. Difficult situations breed astonishing results.”
Jeffrey Veen, Adaptive Path.
“It used to be that designers made an object and walked away. Today the emphasis must shift to designing the entire life cycle.”
Paul Saffo.
“Form follows emotion.”
Hartmut Esslinger, Frog Design.
“A designer should only use these 5 typefaces: Bodoni, Helvetica, Times Roman, Century, Futura.”
Massimo Vignelli.
“No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity - that is, unity or wholeness - in balanced relation to its environment. The reason good design is hard to come by is that its creation demands a high degree of emotional and intellectual maturity in the designer, and such people are not found too often.”
George Nelson.
Garimpado no Bricabraque.