Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Design is people.
Jane Jacobs

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
Tom Peters

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

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

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Marc Newson

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.
David Bromstad

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson