Quotes About Design

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.

I like to design funky things, and I love to mix prints and patterns together.

I don't know why, but I can't get myself to like animal prints.

In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari prints, to create something unique and memorable.

I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking about the future of Airbnb, and Human is working on ways to leverage our platform outside the cause of day-to-day business.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.

In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

I design music; I don't produce it.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me, it is never ending.

What you do, you don't think of as a product.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.