Quotes About Design

My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.

Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

Nobody wants an ugly book.

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.

Some of the best ugly sweaters, people really can't put their finger on the concept of the sweater itself.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

I see games... as the ultimate combination of art and technology.

The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

I think there's too much mixing fashion and intellect. Fashion ultimately is designed to cover the human body, to give you joy, to make you feel better. I don't think it has to have a great intellectual meaning.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.