Design and Creativity Quotations by Designers

Here’s a gallery of inspirational design and creativity quotations by designers.

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Design and Creativity Quotation by Hans Hoffman on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“Design is thinking made visual.” Saul Bass, Graphic Designer

“It’s the feeling of being an eternal student that keeps this profession interesting.” Adrian Shaughnessy, “How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul”

Design and Creativity Quotation by Neville Brody on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“Design can help to improve our lives in the present. Design thinking can help us chart a path into the future.” Tim Brown, Industrial Designer

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple, Inc.

Design and Creativity Quotation by Jeffery Zeldman on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“Accessible design is good design.” Steve Ballmer, Businessman and Former CEO of Microsoft

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” Robert L. Peters, Designer and Author

“Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.” Massimo Vignelli, Italian Designer

“Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art.” Debbie Millman, “How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer”

“Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO

“Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” Margaret Oscar, Designer

Design and Creativity Quotation by Paul Rand on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“Every great design begins with an even better story.” Lorinda Mamo, Designer

Design and Creativity Quotation by Thomas Watson Jr. on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French Writer and Poet

“Design adds value faster than it adds costs.” Joel Spolsky, Web Programmer, Writer, and Creator of Trello

“Make it simple, but significant.” Don Draper, Fictional Character, “Mad Men”

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou, Author, Poet, Civil Rights Activist

“Design is art optimized to meet objectives.” Shimon Shmueli, Educator

“Designers actually can change the world for the better by making the complicated simple and finding beauty in truth.” Michael Beirut, “79 Short Essays on Design”

“Design is a formal response to a strategic question.” Mariona Lopez, Business Owner

Design and Creativity Quotation by Alan Cooper on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with.” Paul Rand, Graphic Designer

“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” Brian Reed

Design and Creativity Quotation by Lorinda Mamo on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“Bad design shouts at you. Good design is the silent seller.” Shane Meendering, Design Evangelist

Design and Creativity Quotation by David Ogilvy on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

Design and Creativity Quotation by Natasha Jen on the Granite Bay Graphic Design website.

“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible.” Don Norman, “The Design of Everyday Things”

“Design is intelligence made visible.” Alina Wheeler, Author

Graphic Design: Paul Kazmercyk | Photography: Online Stock Images: iStockPhoto. Client: Paul Kazmercyk, Granite Bay Design.

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