- It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say,
'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'
- Morris Hite - Design Council research has found that every £100 a business
spends on design increases turnover by £225
- The Design Council - A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
- Douglas Adams - Design means being good, not just looking good
- Clement Mok - Two-thirds of companies who ignore design have to compete mainly on price. In companies where design is integral, just one-third compete mostly on price
- The Design Council - Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes
from collaboration and from trusting your intuition
- Freeman Thomas - Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius… to move in the opposite direction
- Albert Einstein - Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process
that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business
- Clement Mok - There is saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for
one thing, and that's all you'll ever find'
- Robert Flaherty - Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It's a mix
of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy
- Erik Adigard - The link between success and design has never been stronger. Britain's fastest
growing companies are using design to drive their businesses forward
- The Design Council - I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free
- Michelangelo - 80% of design-led businesses have opened up in new markets in the last
3 years whereas only 42% of UK businesses overall have done so
- The Design Council - 83% of companies in which design is integral have seen their
market share increase, compared to the UK average of 47%
- The Design Council - Design is the method of putting form and content together…
Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated
- Paul Rand - Designers can create normality out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas
through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures
- Jeffery Veen - Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way
as best to accomplish a particular purpose
- Charles Eames - The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a
product and service is a designer's most valuable asset
- Primo Angeli - You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension.
That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes
- D.H. Lawrence - Graphic design is the paradise of individuality,
eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours
- George Santayana - 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
- Ivan Chermayeff
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