Quotes About Design

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

I design for a feminine woman who appreciates art a lot, either as a profession or as a hobby.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

My main profession is architect.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you manage designers.

Young designers will often look at things in a different way, and when I was first designing, that's exactly how I felt. People would say, 'That is wrong,' but 'That' was how I wanted it.

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

We have the largest digital design studio in the world.

I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.

The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.