Quotes About Design

Las ropas que llevaban no eran nada reveladoras, notó decepcionado, y ninguna de ellas iba escotada, aunque algunos trajes parecían diseñados para realzar las nalgas.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-in lining for colder climes. The belt, which comes standard, should never be buckled but must be casually knotted at the waist.

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

We call it 'demo therapy.' We're therapists on top of designers and contractors and real estate agents and we really sometimes have to push people past their comfort zone and show them what they like, they just didn't know that they like.

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine.

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

A house is a machine for living.

The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.