Quotes About Design

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.

Most of my jewellery is designed in South India. I pick out unique pieces in silver and then remake them in gold. None of my pieces are gifts; I make all my jewellery.

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings.

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.

My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.

Form follows funding.