Design and Product Design Quotes
Top 20 Design and Product Design
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs (1955- 2011), co-founder
of Apple, pictured
right.
No 2
Good design keeps the user happy,The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the
consumer.
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
French-born American industrial designer, pictured right.
No 3
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
No 4
Form follows function.
- Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) American architect, pictured right.
No 5
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
- Richard Rogers (1933-
), Italian-born British architect, pictured right.
No 6
Good design is determined by good engineering.
- James Dyson (1947- ) English
inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, pictured right.
No 7
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris (1834–96), English designer, pictured right.
No 8
The public don’t know what they want; it’s my job to tell them.
- Alec Issigonis (1906-88), Greek-born British designer of the Mini car, pictured
right.
No 9
My definition of intelligent design is 98 per cent common sense and 2 per cent aesthetics.
- Terence Conran (1931- ) English
designer, pictured right.
No 10
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other,
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
French-born American industrial designer, pictured right.
No 11
Form and function should be one, joined in spiritual union
- Frank Lloyd
Wright (1867-1959) ,the American architect, pictured right.
No 12
Design is the tribute art pays to industry.
- Terence Conran (1931- ), English
designer, pictured right.
No 13
The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good,
- Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher, pictured right.
No 14
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900), English artist
and philosopher, pictured right.
No 15
A building is not just a place to be. It is a way to be,
- Frank Lloyd
Wright (1867-1959), American architect, pictured right.
No 16
The things I designed are plain, simple and useful.
- Terence Conran (1931- ), English
designer, pictured right.
No 17
I don't design clothes. I design dreams.
- Ralph Lauren (1939- ), French clothes designer, pictured right,
No 18
More is less.
- the design motto of the Welsh designer, Laura
Ashley (1925-1985), pictured right.
No 19
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance
- John Ruskin (1819–1900), the English
writer and philosopher, pictured right.
No 20
Some of the bravest things we’ve done are really at that point when you say 'That’s good, and it’s competent,
but it’s not great',
- Jonathan Ive (1967- ), Apple's head of design, pictured
right.
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