Daily Designer

“Typefaces and colors, they're interesting and all, but you know, it only goes so far… How does it all add up to something that again lets you participate in the larger world of things…” — Michael Bierut www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0099

“Almost all the creative people I've ever spoken to are insecure and afraid. The only two people I've ever interviewed that were like 'I'm just cool the way I am' were two people over 80: Milton Glaser and Massimo Vignelli.” — Debbie Millman www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0098

“My number one principle is, design is how you treat your customer.” — Yves Béhar www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0097

“We're all sort of these bowls of soup made of all the ingredients that have been thrown in… I'm not even fully aware of what went into that soup to make who I am.” — Pete Docter www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0096

“We are not problem-solvers. We are… solution-seekers for problems we don't yet know exist.” — Neri Oxman www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0095

“The problem with problem solving is that we tend to repeat what we already have… when you solve old problems, you never move out of the old thinking environment.” — Erik Spiekermann www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0094

“I was on a mission to prove that you didn't have to shout to capture someone's attention.” — Louise Fili www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0093

“As an architect you cannot be a tourist, you need to understand people, you need to know, you need to listen.” — Renzo Piano www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0092

“I think feeling like an outsider from early on has helped me in giving me a certain naivety around what's acceptable for me to say and do or not.” — Kellee Santiago www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0091

“If you're not curious you might as well just stay in bed, which is my favorite place, by the way.” — Maira Kalman www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0090

“Deep down we understand the most direct way to create sort of a so-called user centered design is to be a user of the thing you're designing” — Wilson Miner www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0089

“A lot of inspiration, I think, can be found in very, very mundane places and mundane objects.” — Jasper Morrison www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0088

“You have to be a mind reader you have to somehow be an archaeologist you have to be a psychiatrist and psychologist…and you have to be a dreamer and a poet…and you have to be a politician also. You have to be a lot of things to be an architect” — Elizabeth Diller www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0087

“If there's any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there's this whole world of ideas which … will just never be.” — Bret Victor www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0086

“Experienced people always know why you shouldn't do something. I want people who don't really have that problem” — James Dyson www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0085

“You put something that resembles a handle on anything, people are invited to hold it there, to pick it up, to take it somewhere. You put a hook, people understand, okay, I can hang it somewhere... These tricks are legitimate...” — Konstantin Grcic www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0084

“Attitude is a permanent thing. Style is a transitory thing. And I have no like for transitory things.” — Lella & Massimo Vignelli www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0083

“I have this personal rule that when I find myself complaining about something, I have two options. Either do something about it or let it go.” — Tina Roth-Eisenberg www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0082

“If we don't allow ourselves to be wrong, we're never going to do anything new… making mistakes is an essential part of our process.” — Pete Docter www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0081

“Every new technology it promises better clarity, but its essence is determined by the noise that it produces. So, the friction of limits is what gives a technology its character.” — Frank Chimero www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0080

“A regular leader loves to avoid mistakes. Someone who's creative actually loves to learn from mistakes. A traditional leader is always wanting to be right, whereas a creative leader hopes to be right.” — John Maeda www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0079

“When you type in design thinking projects or even design thinking case studies what you will see again is the series of the same diagrams... that is very very strange to me because when you type in architecture you actually see buildings” — Natasha Jen www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0078

“Only maybe 10 [percent] of what I research is going to end up in the game. The art of this is figuring out what 90 to leave out.” — Will Wright www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0077

“If I set out to do something that's great, then I'm never gonna start.” — Simone Giertz www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0076

“I consider a walk around the block the same as…a trip to India. I mean, you see different things, but you can see as much in a walk around the block as you can see in anywhere that you want in the world.” — Maira Kalman www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0075

“With any half-decent thing that I've done in my life I totally remember being absolutely grumpy while doing it… every time I feel jolly happy while working I'm really really suspicious… ” — Christoph Niemann www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0074

“When you're thinking of the great ideas of history, often what you really want to be thinking about is the great representations that enabled people to think those ideas.” — Bret Victor www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0073

“Embellishment to begin with is something which you add, and you can never get good by adding, you can only get good by subtracting.” — Lella & Massimo Vignelli www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0072

“Some of the most important design decisions happen in code” — Wilson Miner www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0071

“If something doesn't work, it's ugly.” — Jony Ive www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0070

“There's a power in naivete... if you just don't know what danger you're in, what the downsides are, or what's impossible, you're far more likely to try something that hasn't been tried before.” — Susan Kare www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0069

“Designer sitting with a quill pen outside a Parisian window, struck by Proust or struck by whatever… that's a fairy tale. It's designed just the same way Disney is.” — Virgil Abloh www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0068

“Whatever the level is, excellence can always exist on that level. So a good ham and cheese sandwich is really every bit as good as a crème brûlée — in fact it's better than a crème brûlée — but each form requires its own level… ” — Milton Glaser www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0067

“I think architecture is a campaign — to get the things to make the city the place that you want it to be.” — Jeanne Gang www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0066

“What I found to be more interesting — both artistically engaging and perhaps more commercially unique — is the idea of looking at historical models in terms of Unfinished Business.” — Jonathan Hoefler www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0065

“I entreat you not to produce more, but to seek more.” — Kenya Hara www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0064

“Everybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has… wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence. And it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through technology.” — Neri Oxman www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0063

“Humane won't just happen … humane is never a default, and humane only comes out of very deliberate and conscientious design work.” — Bret Victor www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0062

“You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it. And getting it means doing it your own way, and the obligation to get something right is incredibly unnecessary.” — Maira Kalman www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0061

“Being self-deprecating is always beating people to the punch. It kind of was a survival tactic on the internet, of being never daring to set out as an expert.” — Simone Giertz www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0060

“Sometimes people compare design and art and say, ‘Oh, design is commercial.’ I think that art is so much more commercial than design... design is very straightforward in its value scheme. There's a price, you pay it… ” — Paola Antonelli www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0059

“I think it's really important to have a second or third acts or more. … you can do your best work in your third chapter.” — Louise Fili www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0058

“Great art always [emerges] at dramatic tragic times because more people are able to relate towards something that is strong.” — Jenova Chen www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0057

“The role of the architect in this is really just to be the listening party — to not impose ourself on it at all right now, and just get the stories.” — Jeanne Gang www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0056

“Never forget that it's not just about the work you're putting out there, it's about the people… and that's actually the thing that's going to last the longest.” — Ian Spalter www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0055

“Italian racing bikes — they're beautiful and they work well, and they work well because they're beautiful, and they're beautiful because they work well.” — Erik Spiekermann www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0054

“You put yourself out there and you don't wait for the opportunity. You just steal it.” — Elizabeth Diller www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0053

“Effective communication does not depend on how wisely we talk to our partner, but how intensely we listen to him.” — Kenya Hara www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0052

“In many ways, super normal objects — you can't really design them. They become super normal through use, almost.” — Jasper Morrison www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0051

“I feel that language plays a role in the process. Simply because... talking about an idea in the early stage forces me to be precise in explaining what it is that I'm looking for but without creating an image.” — Konstantin Grcic www.dailydesigner.net/quotes/0050