Quotes About Design

I love Aston Martin.

For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

If I don't see an emotional response to a dress, then I think something's wrong.

I don't like to restrict my style. I believe I am a student in the world of design. I love all kinds of design elements and more than that, I love to mix them up.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

I was so inspired by the Alfa 158 that I made my own version of it from scratch.

I live in quite a smart home. I built it from scratch, so I thought of everything... a lot of my doors are automatic; the whole house is voice-activated.

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

The thing I love about car design is that it's sculpture everybody appreciates, everybody has access to.

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

I think, aesthetically, I've always been drawn to packaging and products, combs and blowdryers, all that.

When I was working at the game company, I wasn't just doing graphic design, I was doing the entire product management, so I would do the graphic design, I would create the advertisements, even the catch copies. I would figure out what kind of packaging and design of the packaging, so I was basically doing total product management at that time.

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

I paint with shapes.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.