Harry Seidler Quotes

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Good design is good business.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Accessible design is good design.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

It has a really timeless feel.

Good design is good business.

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

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Rooms should be timeless.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

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

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.