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Quotes About Design

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
~ Adam Savage
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
~ Stephen Baker
I like that I make toys.
~ Kim Swift
The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
~ Zeresenay Alemseged
I believe there is room in the market for a daily driver that embodies all the attributes of the best track racing car and the comfort of a luxurious sports car.
~ Henrik Fisker
The Dover Street Markets bring brands of all disciplines together to sell their products in an open atmosphere that, most importantly, incites creativity. They are, along with the 'Comme des Garcons' stores, usually located in areas off the beaten track.
~ Rei Kawakubo
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
~ Emma Watson
Gucci is not a fashion or a design house, it was always a trademark.
~ Maurizio Gucci
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
~ Mary J. Blige
Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.
~ Tom Ford
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
~ Martha Stewart
I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.
~ Iman Shumpert
Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.
~ Rick Warren
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.
~ Thomas Nagel
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
~ Michael Graves
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.
~ Prince Philip
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
~ Jaime Lerner
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.
~ Win Ng
Interior design is a business of trust.
~ Venus Williams
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
~ Louis Kahn
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
~ John F. Carlson
In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.
~ Massimo Vignelli