1,339 Quotes About Design

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

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

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.