Do Design Quotes

“Design is based upon resolving how someone is going to use something. Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal.”
― Alan Moore, Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

“The Shakers also have one golden rule – back to William Morris: Do not make that which is not useful. And so it was their interpretation that all useful things should also be beautiful. God, as architect Mies van der Rohe said, was in the details and, you never know, an angel may come one day and sit on that chair – it had to be worthy of such an event.”
― Alan Moore, Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

“With your depth of field and curious soul, allowing something to evolve or to see meaning in playful accidents can make the difference between creating the same old thing, or something that is unique, valuable, lasting, beautiful.”
― Alan Moore, Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

“We were all born inherently creative. We all have the capacity to bring beautiful things into this world and should be unapologetic about wanting to create them, whatever they are.”
― Alan Moore, Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything

“Labour at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.”
― Alan Moore, Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

“He realized that he needed a clear mind and clear emotion to draw and execute well from the beginning to the end of his work. We draw our most potent creativity from deep wells. That is not to say we cannot exercise energy as we execute. But we often mistake time pressures, stress and deadlines, alongside the cacophony of an always-on world, as the necessary stimuli to create great work. I believe great work comes from a place of stillness where one's focus is total on the action in hand, directed fully by the heart.”
― Alan Moore, Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything