“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future”.

Robert L Peters, Canadian graphic designer and educator

“To me, what makes something design is that it is functional. It is meant to be used. It is meaningful in the sense that it evokes cosmologies”.

Dori Tunstall, American design educator and the world’s first Black dean of a faculty of design

"Good design is the critical step that takes ideas with potential from the incubator and sets them on the path towards reality".

Rachel Skinner, youngest President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2020, executive director at WSP

“The essence of design lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it”.  

Kenya Hara, Japanese graphic designer, curator and writer, creative director at Muji

“We need to think of design as a human right”.

Immy Kaur, founder and Chief Executive of Civic Square

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

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple

“Design is what links creativity and innovation. It shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers”.

Sir George Cox, aeronautical engineer and co-founder of Butler Cox & Partners