16th July 2010 – Sometimes we need a little motivation and inspiration to help us from day to day.
Here’s a nice collection of quotes from designers, artists and other people with their views on design.
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs
– Frank Chimero
Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead
-Marty Neumier
Practice safe design: Use a concept
-Petrula Vrontikis
I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears
– Andrew Lewis
It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation– Wouter Stokkel
Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up
– Pablo Picasso
Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity
– John Carmack
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended
– Raymond Loewy
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design
-Otl Aicher
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures
– Jeffrey Veen
Design from the spine and you’ll be fine
– Carl Heaton
Everything is designed. Few things are designed well
– Brian Reed
The client may be king but he’s not the art director
– Von R. Glitschka
Graphic designers are idea embalmers. loving undertakers preserving bits of data like so many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box
– Paul Saffo
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering
– Thomas Manss
Graphic designers are, by and large selfish and spoiled. They stubbornly control and individually design things that are generally smaller than them, perfecting to a level appreciated only by people like them. They don’t share and play well with others
– Wayne Hunt
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures
– Ben Schneiderman
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs
– Frank Chimero
Remember it takes a lot of shit, to create a beautiful flower
– Jacob Cass
Design is a good idea
– Emigre
If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life
– Justin Durban
We aren’t designing photocopies of web pages, we’re designing web pages
– Andy Clarke
A computer without Photoshop is like a dog with no legs. Sure is fun, but you can’t really do anything with it
– Benjamin Cavanagh
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
– Douglas Adams
Everyone is an artist
– Joseph Beuys
Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it
– Pierre Bonnard
Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute
– Von R. Glitschka
Without good design it is easy to miss the point
– Bjarni Wark
Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking
– Chris Pullman
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness
– Massimo Vignelli
In the design process, my gut instinct is my best critic. I just wished I would always listen to it!
– Bryan Tamayo
Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end
– Colin Wright
Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption
– Peter Saville
Design is creativity with strategy
– Rob Curedale
Stop looking at yourself as a designer and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas
– Stle Melvr
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist
– Salvador Dali
Good ideas turn into good designs fairly quickly. If you catch yourself fiddling too much with colors, borders and treatments to bring a design together, chances are the problem lies somewhere deeper
– Ryan Singer
We can’t just design an item that looks great. We also have to anticipate how it is boxed up, distributed, and shipped, as well as whether or not a seventeen-year-old kid with a summer job can stock it on the store shelf without ruining it
– Robin Perkins
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus
– David Hockney
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere
– Mieke Gerritzen
The difference between a Designer and Developer when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it
– Scott Hanselman
People ignore design that ignores people
– Frank Chimero
Never re-invent the wheel, unless you’re sure the client needn’t go anywhere
– Russell Bishop
Making good design is easy. It’s polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time
– Stefan G. Bucher
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design
– Stefan Sagmeister
Whether we like it or not, our legacy as designers is ugly. We’re largely responsible for fueling a culture of consumption
– Eric Karjalouto
Graphic designers find themselves in a role of visual dishwashers for the information Architects’ chefs
– Gunnar Swanson
My rates are as follow:
$50 per hour.
$75 per hour. If you watch
$100 per hour if you help
Design is like a mom, nobody notices when she’s around, but everybody misses her when she’s not
– Santiago Borray
A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay, A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends
– Amber Seree Allen
Good design means never having to say “Click Here.”
– Shawn Leslie
Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating
– Heather Phillips
Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower
– Michael Langham
Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration
– Aaron Russell
Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this”
– David Craib
Design is intelligence made visible
– Alina Wheeler
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood
– Fabien Barral
You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously
– Wim Crouwal
Maths is easy; design is hard
– Jeffrey Veen
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does
– David Carsong
Jul 17, 2010 - 12:42 AM
Top one. I’ll be using these for inspiration
Jul 17, 2010 - 12:37 AM
very nicely done I especially like “Stop looking at yourself as a designer and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas”
Jul 17, 2010 - 12:57 PM
Thanks for these nice quotes hopefully will keep me motivated in the dark times
Jul 19, 2010 - 06:01 PM
I think that math is hard,design is very hard.
Jul 20, 2010 - 04:17 AM
Typo! stefan sagmeister Not Stefab
Jul 20, 2010 - 04:33 AM
Just a little typo in Stefan Sagmeister’s name 🙂 (Stefab)
Jul 20, 2010 - 10:37 AM
Just amazing. I’d say classics 🙂
Jul 20, 2010 - 10:39 AM
Thanks. All amended 🙂
Jul 25, 2010 - 08:12 AM
Nice collection of quotes. Some of them are really great. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Jul 25, 2010 - 12:47 PM
Thanks 😉
Jul 26, 2010 - 01:32 PM
Wise words and really inspirational.
Aug 02, 2010 - 12:28 PM
These are excellent Starr. Well done on WDM Nice to see it’s gone from strength to strength.
Aug 19, 2010 - 03:12 PM
sweet! thanks 🙂
Aug 20, 2010 - 11:14 AM
No problem
Aug 22, 2010 - 11:05 PM
brilliant, love this collection, esp the ones that made me laugh 😀
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Oct 21, 2010 - 08:27 PM
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Nov 24, 2010 - 07:02 AM
really nice quotes thanks!!! for the post
appreciate
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Dec 01, 2010 - 08:40 AM
Really inspiring.
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Jun 17, 2011 - 03:46 PM
love this thanks for sharing! I will share some of these on my own website
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Jul 28, 2011 - 01:08 PM
I’m hooked! Can’t stop reading. Haha. I’ll post some on my profiles. Hope you don’t mind. BIG THANKS!
Jul 31, 2011 - 07:35 AM
I think i’m inspired . Thank you
Aug 16, 2011 - 02:47 PM
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Aug 25, 2011 - 04:11 PM
“Design is what you love and who you live with. Feel it?”
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Nov 21, 2011 - 09:15 PM
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Dec 10, 2011 - 08:50 AM
Good design means never having to say “Click Here.”- Shawn Leslie http://t.co/7JrAouKp – quite clever, I should say.
Jan 20, 2012 - 03:17 AM
it’s very nice exlent. usefull for designer’s
regards,
sudhakar
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Jan 30, 2012 - 10:34 AM
My all time favorite is:
“Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication”
Thanks for the great quotes! Enjoy!
Jen
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Jun 14, 2012 - 01:47 PM
Love it!
It should be noted that the second quote was inspired by the notable words of 1930’s-era American journalist, Gene Folwer – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Fowler#Memorable_quotations – “Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
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Jun 30, 2012 - 12:51 PM
I like “My rates are as follow…” I wish I could really say that to my customers 🙂
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Aug 06, 2012 - 02:44 PM
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– Rob Curedale
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– David Craib
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Jan 18, 2013 - 01:58 PM
I just used some of these to inspire my team. Thanks.
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Jul 21, 2014 - 08:58 AM
Really great stuff. I’m always looking for inspiration. Thanks for the post!