Edward Tufte Quotes

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.

I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

The design industry is really pathetic.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

When I gave a direction to an actor in the show, I know their whole journey better than a guest director could know it.

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.