Boubou Design Quotes

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. ~ Jon Franklin

You have to be interested in culture to design for it. ~ Lorraine Wild

Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity. ~ Maggie Macnab

Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design makes a product understandable
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is long-lasting
8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
9. Good design is environmentally friendly
10. Good design is as little design as possible ~ Dieter Rams

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. ~ Douglas Martin

Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence ... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages). ~ Norman Potter

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge. ~ Jared Spool

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. ~ Ellen Lupton

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. ~ Raymond Loewy

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Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out - a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's ... makin' ART. ~ Chip Kidd

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. ~ Jim Henson

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. ~ Jeff Smith

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. ~ David Rockwell

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

McConnell writes, "In ten years the pendulum has swung from 'design everything' to 'design nothing.' But the alternative to BDUF [Big Design Up Front] isn't no design up front, it's a Little Design Up Front (LDUF) or Enough Design Up Front (ENUF)." This is a strawman argument. The alternative to designing before implementing is designing after implementing. ~ Kent Beck

If You Think Math is Hard Try Web Design ~ Pixxelznet

What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional. ~ Cameron Moll

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention. ~ Ted Naifeh

Verbalizing design is another act of design. ~ Kenya Hara

Our interiors are an insight into our brains. It is a collaboration of design, art, humor, irony, functionality, and the street. ~ Amanda Talbot

A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38) ~ Woodrow Phoenix

The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. ~ Steve Krug

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. ~ Steven Heller

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. ~ Justin Kan

Not all design is for the general good. ~ Paola Antonelli

Good design means as little design as possible. ~ Dieter Rams

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. ~ Chip Kidd

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. ~ James Wolcott

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design. ~ Otl Aicher

Design is based upon resolving how someone is going to use something. Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal. ~ Alan Moore

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. ~ El Lissitzky

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

Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don't fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I've ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work. ~ Daniel Burka

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth. ~ David McCandless

Forget all the rules you ever learned
about graphic design. ~ Bob Gill

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. ~ Jeffrey Veen

Good design makes a product understandable. ~ Dieter Rams

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best. ~ Peter Thiel

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate. ~ Tom Turner

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path. ~ Sara Little Turnbull

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill. ~ Debbie Millman

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them. ~ Fred Brooks

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design. ~ Mickey Drexler

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you. ~ Edward De Bono

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. ~ David Hockney

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage. ~ Geoff Lawton

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts. ~ Paul Rand

Great design = getting people to do what you want. ~ Seth Godin

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important. ~ Fred Brooks

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design. ~ Dan Simmons

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. ~ Joe Sparano

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun. ~ Jack Nicklaus

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be ~ Paula Scher

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design. ~ Venus Williams

Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century. ~ Tom Turner

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process. ~ Rem Koolhaas

Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client. ~ Peleg Top

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. ~ Jil Sander

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. ~ T. S. Eliot

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers. ~ Jonathan Ive

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design. ~ Michael Graves

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, ~ Donald A. Norman

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

A single word often betrays a great design. ~ Jean Racine

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design. ~ Sailor Jerry

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value. ~ Paola Antonelli

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. ~ Dries Van Noten

I am giving soul and functionality to art by implementing her in to daily objects by through out design ~ Baris Gencel

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me. ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. ~ Adrian Forty

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all ... good design must primarily serve people. ~ Thomas J. Watson

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. ~ Robert W. Floyd

With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. ~ Dennis Ritchie

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design. ~ Jesse James Garrett

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence. ~ Bob Lutz

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything. ~ Doug Cranmer

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper. ~ Louis Silverstein

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century. ~ Tim Gunn

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out. ~ Janet Macunovich

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for. ~ Michael Graves

Intelligent design itself does not have any content. ~ George Gilder

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. ~ Paul Rand

Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient, ~ Pierre Cardin

About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes ~ Steve Yegge

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long. ~ John Galliano

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard. ~ Edward Tufte

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures. ~ Freeman Dyson

The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design. ~ Tom Turner

To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy. ~ Naomi Cleaver

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. ~ Zaha Hadid

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

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior. ~ Naoto Fukasawa

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design. ~ Kenneth R. Miller

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. ~ Ivan Chermayeff

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. ~ ASAP Ferg

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. ~ Michael Bierut

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it. ~ Bob Gill