Quotes About Design

I feel like music and design complete the idea of each other for me. So, it's like whatever I'm trying to express in one really can't be fully expressed without the other. I've always seen them as the flipside of a coin and bounced back and forth.

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.

Without foundations, there can be no fashion.

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.

There are so many different aspects of my life - the on-camera aspect, the laid-back aspect with my friends and family, the career-oriented aspect, the design aspect.

Fashion is not frivolous.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

Form follows function.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can't wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it's the things that you can't measure that make them different.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

People want to create a space that feels like them - one that's deeply rooted in their personality. That's important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That's why I think every material - down to your faucet - needs to serve a function and feel personal.

Make sure you aren't sacrificing function for fashion. A great shoe has both.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

If something is functional, you no longer think about it. I care about how meaningful things are.

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.