Quotes About Design

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

the room looks like it was bought through some Decorate Your Home app where you plug in your budget and your favorite colors and the whole thing arrives in a van the next day. In

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

The onset of the festive season is a very special time both for my label and me.

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

It is great to see kits designed specifically with us in mind.

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.