Quotes About Design

Design, by definition, is an eco-friendly activity, as its aim is to create objects which are meaningful and durable. Trends always cost resources, but a true designer creates wares which will remain relevant forever.

I love fashion, I love trends.

I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.

I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.

It was really important for me to create fun and trendy pieces for the plus-size market.

Tattoos are addicting, and I used to have this tribal tattoo, but I was never really happy with it.

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

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.

In 1884, the year that the Dakota was completed, the architect Richard Morris Hunt had put the finishing touches on a huge new building on Park Row to house Whitelaw Reid's New York Tribune. The Tribune tower soared an unprecedented eleven stories into the sky and was topped by a tall campanile, but it was not to be New York's tallest building for long. A year later Bradford Lee Gilbert designed the Tower Building, to be erected at 50 Broadway.

Gothic style, and had always admired the old Fletcher house on Seventy-ninth Street and said, "If I ever build a house, I want the architect of that house to design it." The architect of the Fletcher house was C. P. H. Gilbert and, when he had his property, Felix hired him. It was to be quite a house that Mr. Gilbert designed. The ground floor was to contain a large entrance hall with an adjoining "etching room," to house Felix's