Quotes About Design

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

I think, as a choreographer and an action designer, you're constantly giving your characters problems to overcome. That's what makes it fun for choreography. But it also makes it fun for the audience to see them solve those puzzles and how they are as a human being.

Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.

Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Design doesn't have to be daunting. Some people really find it challenging to take on their entire home, because they don't know their aesthetic; they don't know where they want to go.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

Some things like the layout of the early VKontakte was very influenced by Facebook. Otherwise it could take ages for me to build, and I was not a professional designer.

Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

I collect hotel keys. I hope to make something out of them someday. It would be cool to make a bar at my house and, like, the bar is all the hotel keys: lay them down and put glass over them. Or maybe even a coffee table.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

The design of 'Love Actually, ' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.