design

Good ideas never go out of style.

Dale Harris

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when you do something, you should yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

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The secret to our enduring brand lies in delivering an experience rather than just a collection of products and services.

Harley - Davidson Annual report

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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel De Cervantes

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the inventors will invent, for that is what inventors do. The technology will come first, the products second, and then the needs will slowly appear, as new applications become luxuries, then "needs", and finally, essential. Don Norman

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Design is challenge-solving.
Aaron Marcus

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Design is art that makes itself useful.
1984 poster for Die Neue Sammlung, design museum, Munich

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Design shapes the way we live. So it ought to serve everyone.
Eva Maddox, Interior Architect and Designer, Co-founder, Archeworks

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The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames, Architect, Graphic and Industrial Designer, Filmmaker

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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro, Painter

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Before you can execute the design, you’ve got to live the design problem.
Credited to Kathleen Brandenburg, Principal and Cofounder, IA Collaborative

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Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
April Greiman

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Each client is a partnership, a conversation. You’re only going to be able to go as far as they wish to go, in a way. ... That makes all the difference.
Lindy Roy, Architect

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein