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2026
"Typefaces and colors, they're interesting and all, but you know, it only goes so far… How does it all add up to something that again lets you participate in the larger world of things…" — Michael Bierutoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
"Almost all the creative people I've ever spoken to are insecure and afraid. The only two people I've ever interviewed that were like 'I'm just cool the way I am' were two people over 80: Milton Glaser and Massimo Vignelli." — Debbie Millmanoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
4 Sept 2026
"We're all sort of these bowls of soup made of all the ingredients that have been thrown in… I'm not even fully aware of what went into that soup to make who I am." — Pete Docteroriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
"The problem with problem solving is that we tend to repeat what we already have… when you solve old problems, you never move out of the old thinking environment." — Erik Spiekermannoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
"We are not problem-solvers. We are… solution-seekers for problems we don't yet know exist." — Neri Oxmanoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
"I was on a mission to prove that you didn't have to shout to capture someone's attention." — Louise Filioriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
"As an architect you cannot be a tourist, you need to understand people, you need to know, you need to listen." — Renzo Pianooriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
"I think feeling like an outsider from early on has helped me in giving me a certain naivety around what's acceptable for me to say and do or not." — Kellee Santiagooriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
"If you're not curious you might as well just stay in bed, which is my favorite place, by the way." — Maira Kalmanoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
"Deep down we understand the most direct way to create sort of a so-called user centered design is to be a user of the thing you're designing" — Wilson Mineroriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
"A lot of inspiration, I think, can be found in very, very mundane places and mundane objects." — Jasper Morrisonoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
"You have to be a mind reader you have to somehow be an archaeologist you have to be a psychiatrist and psychologist… and you have to be a dreamer and a poet… and you have to be a politician also. you have to be a lot of things to be an architect" — Elizabeth Dilleroriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
"If there's any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there's this whole world of ideas which … will just never be." — Bret Victororiginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
"Experienced people always know why you shouldn't do something. I want people who don't really have that problem" — James Dysonoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
"You put something that resembles a handle on anything, people are invited to hold it there, to pick it up, to take it somewhere. You put a hook, people understand, okay, I can hang it somewhere... These tricks are legitimate... they're like a signage or a manual almost saying, you know, do something with me." — Konstantin Grcicoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
"Attitude is a permanent thing. Style is a transitory thing. And I have no like for transitory things." — Lella & Massimo Vignellioriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
"I have this personal rule that when I find myself complaining about something, I have two options. Either do something about it or let it go." — Tina Roth-Eisenbergoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
"If we don't allow ourselves to be wrong, we're never going to do anything new… making mistakes is an essential part of our process." — Pete Docteroriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
"Every new technology it promises better clarity, but its essence is determined by the noise that it produces. So, the friction of limits is what gives a technology its character." — Frank Chimerooriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
"A regular leader loves to avoid mistakes. Someone who's creative actually loves to learn from mistakes. A traditional leader is always wanting to be right, whereas a creative leader hopes to be right." — John Maedaoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
"When you type in design thinking projects or even design thinking case studies what you will see again is the series of the same diagrams... that is very very strange to me because when you type in architecture you actually see buildings" — Natasha Jenoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
"Only maybe 10 [percent] of what I research is going to end up in the game. The art of this is figuring out what 90 to leave out." — Will Wrightoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
15 Aug 2026
"I consider a walk around the block the same as…a trip to India. I mean, you see different things, but you can see as much in a walk around the block as you can see in anywhere that you want in the world." — Maira Kalmanoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
"With any half-decent thing that I've done in my life I totally remember being absolutely grumpy while doing it. And even worse, every time I feel jolly happy while working I'm really really suspicious, because I think that's not going to bode well for the outcome." — Christoph Niemannoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
"When you're thinking of the great ideas of history, often what you really want to be thinking about is the great representations that enabled people to think those ideas." — Bret Victororiginal ↗
12 Aug 2026
"Embellishment to begin with is something which you add, and you can never get good by adding, you can only get good by subtracting." — Lella & Massimo Vignellioriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
"There's a power in naivete... if you just don't know what danger you're in, what the downsides are, or what's impossible, you're far more likely to try something that hasn't been tried before." — Susan Kareoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
"Designer sitting with a quill pen outside a Parisian window, struck by Proust or struck by whatever… that's a fairy tale. It's designed just the same way Disney is." — Virgil Ablohoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2026
"Whatever the level is, excellence can always exist on that level. So a good ham and cheese sandwich is really every bit as good as a crème brûlée — in fact it's better than a crème brûlée — but each form requires its own level of intelligence and passion." — Milton Glaseroriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
"I think architecture is a campaign — to get the things to make the city the place that you want it to be." — Jeanne Gangoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
"What I found to be more interesting — both artistically engaging and perhaps more commercially unique — is the idea of looking at historical models in terms of Unfinished Business." — Jonathan Hoefleroriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
"Everybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has… wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence. And it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through technology." — Neri Oxmanoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2026
"Humane won't just happen … humane is never a default, and humane only comes out of very deliberate and conscientious design work." — Bret Victororiginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
"You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it. And getting it means doing it your own way, and the obligation to get something right is incredibly unnecessary." — Maira Kalmanoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
"Being self-deprecating is always beating people to the punch. It kind of was a survival tactic on the internet, of being never daring to set out as an expert." — Simone Giertzoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
"Sometimes people compare design and art and say, ‘Oh, design is commercial.’ I think that art is so much more commercial than design... design is very straightforward in its value scheme. There's a price, you pay it, and then you own the design." — Paola Antonellioriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
"I think it's really important to have a second or third acts or more. … you can do your best work in your third chapter." — Louise Filioriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
"Great art always [emerges] at dramatic tragic times because more people are able to relate towards something that is strong." — Jenova Chenoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
"The role of the architect in this is really just to be the listening party — to not impose ourself on it at all right now, and just get the stories." — Jeanne Gangoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2026
"Never forget that it's not just about the work you're putting out there, it's about the people… and that's actually the thing that's going to last the longest." — Ian Spalteroriginal ↗
25 Jul 2026
"Italian racing bikes — they're beautiful and they work well, and they work well because they're beautiful, and they're beautiful because they work well." — Erik Spiekermannoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
"You put yourself out there and you don't wait for the opportunity. You just steal it." — Elizabeth Dilleroriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
"Effective communication does not depend on how wisely we talk to our partner, but how intensely we listen to him." — Kenya Haraoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
"In many ways, super normal objects — you can't really design them. They become super normal through use, almost." — Jasper Morrisonoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
"I feel that language plays a role in the process. Simply because... talking about an idea in the early stage forces me to be precise in explaining what it is that I'm looking for but without creating an image." — Konstantin Grcicoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
"It's good to have a challenge... if you can place, 'oh yeah, I can do that, that's easy' — you're not going to push yourself... I think you can achieve much more with a little bit of terror behind you." — Sandy Powelloriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
"I'm a big believer that companies are energetic entities. They literally have soul... that vibration is dictated by the people that contribute to it... everyone I hire, everyone I allow into my network is contributing and adding and possibly damaging or amplifying the positive." — Tina Roth-Eisenbergoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
"We can offer a 2.0 to every idea — if we thought of creativity like tech, it's like without the iPod, would we have gotten to the iPhone 7" — Virgil Ablohoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2026
"Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can remove, which is actually a very good principle to apply to UI design." — Will Wrightoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
"Our process is never about splattering the world of possibilities on the wall and showing a client, oh, these are the 20 different ways this can be done. What we do instead is we pick one thing that we think would be really extraordinary." — Yves Béharoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
"Space is supposed to enrich your life... that's why the public domain is very important — because not everybody has luxurious places to live. That's why schools should be very interesting. Libraries, theaters, museums." — Zaha Hadidoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
"Architects have been trained to think about their designs in terms of assemblies of discrete parts made of homogeneous materials, but we know that nature doesn't operate this way." — Neri Oxmanoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
"If you think about how a lot of the education system is… You first learn the tools and then maybe you get to apply them on ideas. Sometimes you might not even get to the ideas." — Simone Giertzoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2026
"The process of purchasing it maybe at the Apple Store, getting it in that wonderful box, turning it on, experiencing the interface, creating content, connecting with your family and friends — then it becomes an iPhone." — Robert Brunneroriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
"Methodology somehow has become the idea itself — that itself is really troubling because methodology is kind of empty, a vessel that should be different to different situations" — Natasha Jenoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
"What does it take to come up with a really great idea? It's really 87% effort — it's like sitting there banging your head against the table... There's 7.5% luck." — Christoph Niemannoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
"Software... you can change it even over time, you can go back and change it and you can get a wider audience... even if it doesn't have your name on it." — Susan Kareoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
"The difference between going into a bookstore and browsing, and the fact of reading are two very different but very, very critical ways of gathering information." — Muriel Cooperoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
"You have to decide what is more important: doing something and fearing that rejection and fearing the failure, or having regretted not having done it. Which would you rather die of?" — Debbie Millmanoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
"Don't get too committed to any one idea too early… the core idea is going to be shifting around underneath your feet all the time, and you need to kind of understand the region of space it can shift in." — Will Wrightoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2026
"Never sit and wait for the phone to ring with the perfect job. Why? Because there is no perfect job. The perfect job is the one that you make for yourself." — Louise Filioriginal ↗
4 Jul 2026
"This thing that you've made, it's from you, and it feels like you, but it really isn't you. It goes out there, and it's not yours anymore. Your thing becomes our thing." — Frank Chimerooriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
"Design is meaningless unless it's having the intended effect or the unintended effect on other people." — Michael Bierutoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
"What the students get from a good teacher is not instruction. What they get is a demonstration of someone's view of life. I mean, that's what you teach — you teach a way of perceiving the world." — Milton Glaseroriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
"We can't help but love complexity. We're human beings: we love complex things." — John Maedaoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
"A great tool is one that just makes you feel happier than you did before you were using it." — Taylor Levyoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2026
"Simplicity isn't about removing clutter — you just end up with an uncluttered product. A desiccated, soulless product." — Jony Iveoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
"Whenever I start a project, I'm thinking about: what do we need to feel when we walk inside?" — Jeanne Gangoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
"We've come from being a society that is paranoid about being observed to a society that is… paranoid that nobody's watching." — Elizabeth Dilleroriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
"The success of the iPod, iPhone and so on is that it is a product, but above all a system, and behind the system, a service, first and foremost." — Erik Spiekermannoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2026
"The more it’s simple, the harder it is to make... that’s a lot more work than sometimes people are willing to take on." — Yves Béharoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026
"One of the things I learned from designers like Paula and Louise is that good type doesn’t come from the computer — it comes from the culture." — Jonathan Hoefleroriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
"The most interesting films that take the biggest risks are the ones with the least amount of money — because people who’ve got lots of money don’t want to risk spending lots of money on a filmmaker taking a risk." — Sandy Powelloriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
"I say the best design is invisible nudge... the best way is to just apply a tiny little pressure that they don’t even notice, right? And then they lean forward and they fall into it." — Jenova Chenoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2026
"I don’t like the word compromise... I’ve known for a long time that as long as I maintain the central idea to the project and I can adjust the work to suit." — Zaha Hadidoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
"I didn’t realize that the root of the word object is really that something is thrown in your way… objects are not just unobtrusive, blending into our environment." — Konstantin Grcicoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
"My greatest design tool personally is to look what that genre is doing and make it 3 to 5% different." — Virgil Ablohoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
"Confidence is always about yourself while enthusiasm is about something else... confidence is impressive while enthusiasm is infectious... confidence is serious while enthusiasm is fun and fun wins" — Tina Roth-Eisenbergoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
"Beauty is actually intelligence — beauty is precision — beauty is not decoration" — Natasha Jenoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
"Pursuing dead ends is your creative life insurance… it’s almost like becoming a professional soccer player — if you come home from practice 10 times in a row without a single bloody knee, you’re doing something wrong." — Christoph Niemannoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
"The logo is recognizable not because of the arc, not because of the typeface, but because of the ubiquitousness... you see them everywhere... That’s how big companies get known." — Paula Scheroriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
"People at tech companies who are designing tend to look at images from other tech companies... there’s just hobo signs and engravings and all that source material that maybe just can spur you to think a little bit more outside the valley" — Susan Kareoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
"One of the questions that you have to ask yourself is whether who does the driving? Do you, do we? Does the machine, where does the agent fit in this?" — Muriel Cooperoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
"Confidence is overrated... What’s more important than confidence is courage. Confidence comes from the repeated endeavor... how could you expect to have confidence in something you don’t know how to do?" — Debbie Millmanoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
"No one secretly wants a new logo. They all want someone else’s logo, or they want their old logo back." — Michael Bierutoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
"I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints." — Charles Eamesoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
"The creation of a puzzle is one of the tools that you have to make people understand things... the likelihood is that they will remember and respond to it more than if they’re told something directly." — Milton Glaseroriginal ↗
5 Jun 2026
"Form doesn’t follow function anymore... when you take something like an iPhone, until you turn it on and things happen, you don’t know what the function will be." — Paola Antonellioriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
"If you aren’t designing something that slightly ticks off people, it means you’re thinking too small." — John Maedaoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026