Quotes About Design

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

You find a story - or more importantly, you find some characters - that you want to be around as a filmmaker. The style and how we're going to shoot it and how we're going to design it and how it's all going to feel and look depends on that story. They tell me how I should shoot it.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Thom Browne is, in my opinion, one of the great minds in men's wear.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

Finding a way to really reinterpret your home as an expression of how you live, is really good design in my opinion.

In the past, I had these really high-tech boardshorts.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

My architectural education is way, way incomplete, but if you're in a beautifully designed space, it can change the way you see and the way you feel. The same way great movies and great music can immerse you, so can a space.

I love fashion, and I try to incorporate that.

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don't incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

One way to design and deliver a project on an enormous scale is to build one thing. One huge thing.

First, you can't build a nuclear power plant quickly, run it for a while, see what works and what doesn't, then change the design to incorporate the lessons learned.

It's relatively easy to build something small and simple.

Modularity is a clunky word for the elegant idea of big things made from small things. A block of Lego is a small thing, but by assembling more than nine thousand of them, you can build one of the biggest sets Lego makes, a scale model of the Colosseum in Rome. That's modularity.

The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.