Quotes About Design

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

He creates mosques and forts that aren't buildings, but tapestries of rock.

was not that the building won fame for its style, although the WPA Guide said that it had a "directness of expression evident in few commercial buildings," it's because working with General Motors, Shreve and Lamb got to know John J. Raskob of General Motors, who would later call upon them to design the Empire State Building.

Plans for running two elevator cars—a local and an express—in the same shaft were being developed by Otis engineers in 1929.

Academic terms did not concern them. American architects never called their style Art Deco at the time

Two of their most famous designs, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue between Fortieth and Forty-second Streets, and the long-demolished New Theater (aka, the Century) on Central Park West between Sixty-second and Sixty-third Streets, were two of the city's greatest manifestations of the Beaux Arts.

Richmond H. Shreve, William F. Lamb, and Arthur Loomis Harmon, who teamed up to design the Empire State Building

Shreve and Lamb both joined the firm of Carrère & Hastings.

Their working arrangement was the ideal professional relationship, one with the qualities of yin and yang. Shreve's proclivities were organizational—his was the genius that solved the operational and administrative problems that had the Empire State Building completed in one year. Lamb's proclivities rested more naturally in the design field. Each assumed responsibility in his chosen field, but neither abdicated responsibility in the other.

he then ran his own firm from 1913 to 1929, during which time he designed the award-winning Shelton Hotel. Often identified with the Empire State Building, Harmon was sometimes a little embarrassed by the honor. He joined Shreve and Lamb in 1929 when they were already roughing out the building's plans, and

I don't think we'll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we're going to change what's rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution "schools" very well, but it does not "educate"; that's inherent in the design of the thing. It's not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It's just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Service design is about arranging things so that people who need things done are connected to other people and equipment that get things done-on an as- and when-needed basis. The technical term, which comes from the logistics industry, is "dynamic resource allocation in real time.

Mental illness is primarily an unconscious escape from this design, a form of passive resistance.

Come, let us weave a plan!

a hatred I was going to feel anyway for men whose evil came not from some grand design, but cost-benefit analysis and spite.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

Ellen Raskin

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