Steve Madden Quotes

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

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

I'm an unbelievable designer.

I love design.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

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.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

I love designing, and I still do it.

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

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

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

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.