Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
Yves Behar
BeautifulDesignAestheticImportant
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
John Maeda
TodayScienceArtChallengeDesign
What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.
Philip Treacy
LoveHatPeopleThinkDesignCrown
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
Alber Elbaz
ArtEndDesignYouSaidCreation
Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
Jason Reitman
CarTimeDesignPictureFeelYou
Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.
Hod Lipson
LifeTechnologyPotentialDesignOur
Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.
HomePeopleChallengesDesignJuice
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
Robert Shea
CompetitionSucceedDesignPrinciples
I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is a design statement, an engineering marvel, and something that really redefines tomorrow.
Pranav Mistry
TomorrowEngineeringDesignI Can
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats
ThinkDesignConnectionSilentTaste
I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.
Janina Gavankar
GreatFashionDesignFurnitureOver
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus
MomentMenVictoryDesignGoalMore
We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.
Xenophon
KingRestDesignSameDestroyUs
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Robert Hughes
WorkArtDesignNothingWayEver
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
Pharrell Williams
FunnyIdeasTeamSpeakEndDesign
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
Vivienne Westwood
PersonalityPeopleDesignHelp
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
Jonathan Hickman
DesignGoalStorytellingBooksMarry
Design is nothing if not decision making.
Henry Petroski
DecisionDesignNothingMaking
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang
LoveGreatDanceDressBrideDesign
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
Jefferson Han
GrowBetterDesignFeelYouLook
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
Peter York
StyleDesignKnowPolicyInterior
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
Thom Mayne
AgeBestDesignSolutionOverJust
To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.
Jonathan Ive
DesignYouNewReasonSomething
When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.
Henry Samueli
DesignYouOutStartedBasementFew
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