Quotes About Design

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Tower Bridge would make a cool house. I like the idea of living over the river.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

I don't design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.

I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.