Intentional Design Quotes

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Some people have a concept of design: that it should be without the maker. I have been educated in this way, the traditional way. But I am not naive. I know that we make my things, and that people want them. I am signing them - and I am winking at them.

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

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

Design means being good, not just looking good.

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

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

You have to invent the future you want.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

I don't believe anything's a coincidence.

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

I did not plan... the Cube as a competitive item.

Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine, organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

I don't believe in coincidence.