ZachReed

“Take a walk. Dance a jig. Get some sun. Don’t take yourself to serious. Cook something ethnic. Play the 3 chords you know on guitar. Go get coffee. Tell a bad joke, to yourself, and laugh. Look at the way a leaf is made. Overhear someone else’s conversation. Write it down. Remember it later. Get some sleep.”

→ Kyle Steed

“Let the design team be the design experts. Your job is to be the business expert. Ask them how their design solutions meet your business goals. If you trust your design team, and they can explain how their recommendations map to those goals, you’re fine. If you neither trust them, nor can they defend their choices it’s time to get a new design team.”

→ Mike Monteiro

“IF YOU MAKE EVERYTHING BOLD, NOTHING IS BOLD.”

→ Art Webb

“Good art inspires; Good design motivates.”

→ Otl Aicher

“All of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head.”

→ Peter Gabriel

“Instead of searching for inspiration, how about you search out someone to inspire.”

→ Tony Kim

“We are all designers, the difference is that only a few of us do it full-time.”

→ Sabo Tercero

“When a company gets to certain size, it’s easy just to let things happen. You have to constantly craft and nurture a brand. You can’t just let it be or it’ll fritter away to mediocrity.”

→ Fiona Morrison

“Design is intelligence made visible.”

→ Alina Wheeler

“Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.”

→ Victor Papanek

“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.”

→ Edward Tufte

“The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.”

→ Jeff Smith

“Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.”

→ Ellen Lupton

“Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.”

→ Juan-Carlos Fernàndez

“Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.”

→ David Craib