1,339 Quotes About Design

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

We need to design our systems to fit within this set of thermal envelopes.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Going undersea requires a much more robust design. Pressure does horrendous things to technology.

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.

I'm fairly sure this will be a reference design for third parties.

Shutting down a design team like that will mean that dozens of people, if not hundreds of people, will either be sent away or they will be distributed to other programs.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.