Quotes About Design

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

I don't design down to a price.

I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them. Not only did I get to design an entire fashion line, but I got to do it at a great price point with quality clothes, both of which are very important to me.

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices.

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

We basically built a pricing model that surgically identified what people wanted to pay us for and what they didn't want to pay us for. One of the things we figured out early on was that we could create value for people by creating a product that allowed them to design something that they couldn't design without us.

At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everything.

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.

That's my style - to mix a lot of print and pattern and put it all together.

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.