Form follows function.

—Louis Sullivan

design form function

About Louis Sullivan

Portrait of Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects...

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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

—Milton Glaser

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