Quotes About Design

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Throughout my partnership with Reebok, I've loved working closely with their product and design team in our shared mission of creating the best fitness products in the world.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

Every great summer party starts with a list. Throwing something together chaotically ends up being more work than taking 15 minutes to make a plan first.

I'm good at throwing fabric on myself!

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

There are simple, small things you can do that really will impact the space. Things like changing out your curtain panels to something that adds a fresh new feel. Or maybe a smart pattern. Also swapping out an area rug, throws and pillows can be done in no time, and really have a dramatic effect.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

When you walk around the property, everything ties up together and looks good. That is the main goal as a designer.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

I think men like things tight and simple.