Quotes & Sayings About Design Inspiration
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The Egyptians are inferior only to themselves. In all other styles we can trace a rapid ascent from infancy, founded on some bygone style, to a culminating point of perfection, when the foreign influence was modified or discarded, to a period of slow, lingering decline, feeding on it's own elements. In the Egyptian we have no traces of infancy or of any foreign influence; and we must, therefore believe that they went to inspiration directly from nature. — Owen Jones Classics
When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward. — Marc Forster
Do you realize that you have the power to design a life that's meaningful and even remarkable? You and God are in a family partnership. He has not only blessed you with mortal breath, but with a purpose-filled life. He's given you power and will to control that life. This is a gift that He will never take from you. But when you humble yourself and give your will back to him, your life will be nothing short of miraculous. — Toni Sorenson
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang
The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis. — Pope Francis
Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning. — Tim Brown
If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible. — Jim Rohn
My places were emotional, primarily. I wrote of locales in which I had lived, or in which I imagined I could live, but the topography was primal and sexual and terminal. It bore no distinct architecture or design or dialect. It was merely human and in peril, which is to say universal. But on Royal and Coliseum and Vista--streets I cannot relinquish--I found my places and I dreamed a narrative. Can I go there and find it again?"--Tennessee Williams — James Grissom
Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question. — Laura Busche
Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention. — Laura Busche
In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter. — Laura Busche
Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something - it creates a talking point. — Chris Arnold
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? — Michael Hansmeyer
Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create - be it product, communication or system - is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do. — Maggie Macnab
All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships. — Laura Busche
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts. — Andy Clark
People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands. — Laura Busche
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it. — John Varvatos
Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it. — Laura Busche
Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions. — Laura Busche
Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower. — Michael Langham
Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. — Laura Busche
People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they'll relate to you, too. — Laura Busche
I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature. It also requires a willingness to accept objectives which are limited by physical, logical, and technological constraints, and to accept a compromise when conflicting objectives cannot be met. No committee will ever do this until it is too late. — C.A.R. Hoare
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration. — Nate Berkus
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it. — Arthur Erickson
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm. — Mark Batterson
Inspiration comes from the act of writing. — Steve Doll
It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel. — Greg Lynn
What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow? — Laura Busche
I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design. — Olivier Theyskens
I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing' ... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home! — Laz Alonso
Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration. — Jessica Walsh
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered. — Carl Magnusson
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that. — Hillman Curtis
I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds.
Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why.
Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often.
I'm bringing this up because it's time to bridge the gap between design and business. — Laura Busche
Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for. — Laura Busche
When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well. — Christian De Portzamparc
Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well. — Laura Busche
Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity - in startups, enterprises, and life itself. — Laura Busche
So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?
Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence. — Laura Busche
From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me. — Brunello Cucinelli
For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design. — Sarah Ferguson
Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you. — Laura Busche
Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream. — Francois Du Toit
MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE. — Shepard Fairey
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have. — Gil Evans
I am a book of inspiration and precious design's — Martellis Thurmand