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Posted Date: March 21, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"What I dream of is an art of balance."

– Henri Matisse

Posted Date: March 20, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is the intentional and altruistic act of synthesizing a harmonious response to a context. It is neither art, which embeds self, or science, which proclaims problem solving."

– Hanee Patenaude

Posted Date: March 19, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

– Douglas Adams

Posted Date: March 18, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct."

– Karl Lagerfeld

Posted Date: March 17, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in."

– Chuck Green

Posted Date: March 16, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension."

– Ladislav Sutnar

Posted Date: March 15, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently—and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention."

– Terence Conran

Posted Date: March 14, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is communication. Great design is rational. Rational design is filtered communication."

– Thierry Loa

Posted Date: March 13, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

– Louis Kahn

Posted Date: March 12, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."

– Jim Hightower

Posted Date: March 11, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Good design can't fix broken business models."

– Jeffrey Veen

Posted Date: March 10, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Form follows function; that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

– Frank Lloyd Wright

Posted Date: March 9, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."

– Hans Hofmann

Posted Date: March 8, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The client is not always right."

– Enzo Ferrari

Posted Date: March 7, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is an unknown."

– Geoffrey Beene

Posted Date: March 6, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

– Frank Lloyd Wright

Posted Date: March 5, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."

– Salvador Dali

Posted Date: March 4, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"When people talk about innovation in this decade, they really mean design."

– Bruce Nussbaum

Posted Date: March 3, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."

– R. Buckminster Fuller

Posted Date: March 2, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is art optimized to meet objectives."

– Shimon Shmueli

Posted Date: March 1, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

– Louis Nizer

Posted Date: February 28, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"College isn’t the place to go for ideas."

– Helen Keller

Posted Date: February 27, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"There’s always some kind of hidden logic."

– Christian Lacroix

Posted Date: February 26, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"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

Posted Date: February 25, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

– Coco Chanel

Posted Date: February 24, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"To dismiss front-end design as mere ‘icing’ is to jeopardize the success of any site."

– Curt Cloninger

Posted Date: February 23, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."

– Paul Rand

Posted Date: February 22, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."

– Marc Jacobs

Posted Date: February 21, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"It's not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see."

– Henry David Thoreau

Posted Date: February 20, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable."

– Robert Greenberg

Posted Date: February 19, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."

– Albert Einstein

Posted Date: February 18, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself."

– Ferdinand Porsche

Posted Date: February 17, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is not a plan for decoration."

– Brian Collins

Posted Date: February 16, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Interactive design is a seamless blend of graphic arts, technology, and psychology."

– Brad Wieners

Posted Date: February 15, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"I want what I do to speak volumes."

– Alexander McQueen

Posted Date: February 14, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

– Milton Glaser

Posted Date: February 13, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Posted Date: February 12, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"It’s really easy to get colors right. It’s really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it’s also an illusion."

– Donna Karan

Posted Date: February 11, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Form has to come after function, I can’t conceive of it in any other way. There are certainly psychological functions as well, it is a matter of balancing the esthetic content with regard to use."

– Dieter Rams

Posted Date: February 10, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."

– Charles Mingus

Posted Date: February 9, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Color doesn’t add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."

– Pierre Bonnard

Posted Date: February 8, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion."

– Bob Baxley

Posted Date: February 7, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."

– Winifred Holtby

Posted Date: February 6, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

– Jack London

Posted Date: February 5, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."

– Sidney J. Harris

Posted Date: February 4, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

– Steve Jobs

Posted Date: February 3, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Art is the lie that reveals the truth."

– Pablo Picasso

Posted Date: February 2, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."

– Milton Glaser

Posted Date: February 1, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."

– Dr. David M. Burns

Posted Date: January 31, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."

– Walter Gropius

Posted Date: January 30, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

– Charles F. Kettering

Posted Date: January 29, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

– Marcel Proust

Posted Date: January 28, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it’s also about the ability to do systems thinking."

– James P. Hackett

Posted Date: January 27, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

– Dr. Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Posted Date: January 26, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

– Steve Jobs

Posted Date: January 25, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Posted Date: January 24, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

– Joseph Chilton Pearce

Posted Date: January 23, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."

– Helen Keller

Posted Date: January 22, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design, in the end, is about creating better things for people. Along the way, it can generate better profits as well."

– Bruce Nussbaum

Posted Date: January 21, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

– Scott Adams

Posted Date: January 20, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

– Vincent van Gogh

Posted Date: January 19, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."

– Dee Hock

Posted Date: January 18, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is as transparent as glass and as light as air. Design is an element of everything, not everything."

– Stuart Montgomery Long

Posted Date: January 17, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

– Mark Twain

Posted Date: January 16, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art, science, aesthetics and engineering; that kind of unity is needed once again."

– Ben Shneiderman

Posted Date: January 15, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"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."

– Jeffery Veen

Posted Date: January 14, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

– Daniel Boorstin

Posted Date: January 13, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

– Warren Buffet

Posted Date: January 12, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

– Frank Tibolt

Posted Date: January 11, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

– Aristotle

Posted Date: January 10, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence."

– Aaron Betsky

Posted Date: January 9, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."

– Tom Peters

Posted Date: January 8, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood."

– Ivan Chermayeff

Posted Date: January 7, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

– Edgar Allen Poe

Posted Date: January 6, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

– George Bernard Shaw

Posted Date: January 5, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all."

– Douglas Martin

Posted Date: January 4, 2010 | Editor: HotFussDesign

"The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

– G.K. Chesterton

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