Design Quotes

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

The primary factor is proportions.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.