Geoffrey Beene Quotes

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Design has always been at the heart of our business.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

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.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.