Britt Daniel Quotes

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

My design is no design.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

I think Calvin [Klein] is a minimalist.

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

Good design means as little design as possible.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

I think the simpler the better.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it - but it's taken me three weeks to design. For some reason it just wasn't working. Then finally I realized there was a number present, which I was rendering in each version, that wasn't necessary for the understanding of the piece. This figure was getting in the way and distracting from the main flow of the narrative. As soon as I pulled that graphic out of the design, it sprang into focus. Suddenly it worked.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.