Quotes on Design

Hristo Panayotov

Chris Coyier — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:17:47 +0000

Best thing about creating something is that it starts living it’s own life.

Jay Benjamin

Chris Coyier — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:18:59 +0000

The difference between an artist and a graphic designer. One says “it’s finished when I feel it’s finished” the other says “I will have this by the 30th.”

Tanner Christensen

Chris Coyier — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:31 +0000

Even large companies need small logos.

Henry Dreyfuss

Chris Coyier — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:10:24 +0000

[If] people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient, or just happier, the designer has succeeded.

Saul Bass

Chris Coyier — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:49:01 +0000

There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I’m a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.

Alex King

Chris Coyier — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:18:50 +0000

Experience has shown that our best customers are ones who have as much respect for our time as we have for theirs.

Jack Schulze

Chris Coyier — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:06:16 +0000

Some people say design is about solving problems. Obviously designers solve problems but so do dentists. Design is about cultural invention.

Randall Munroe

Chris Coyier — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:31:34 +0000

I find that when someone’s taking time to do something right in the present, they’re a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize, whereas when someone took time to do something right in the past, they’re a master artisan of great foresight.

Philip Glass

Chris Coyier — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:24:30 +0000

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

Sonia Rykiel

Chris Coyier — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:12:56 +0000

It doesn’t matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don’t question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not – his cakes are delicious and that’s all that matters.