Quotes About Design

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.

I can imagine an automotive designer or an industrial designer building a product in 3D, all in real-time. That's the way a lot of people are going to work in the future.

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

But design has never been a Europe-only project. The best of design has global influences. And we've got to design the future immigration system to make sure that we continue to attract the brightest and best.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.

Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.

I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way.

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.

The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.

I collect craft. It inspires me.