Quotes About Design

Marcel Breuer's armchair, with its horsehair fabric stretched taut on an armature of tubular chrome, is one of the Bauhaus designs that has remained a classic.

If a glass tabletop was half a centimeter thick, its support and legs precisely doubled or tripled that measure. The iPhone also depended on the exact relation of proportions, so that a sense of rightness enters the user.

Anni and Josef Albers's house was the whitest place imaginable.

Gropius characterized what was essential: "An object…must fulfill its function usefully, be durable, economical, and 'beautiful.

At the Bauhaus, Josef Albers wrote a friend for whose apartment he was designing furniture, "An empty room is always the best.

Bauhaus. And there were many other occasions when he praised the Bauhaus by name for having simplified and humanized the material objects of everyday living.

The Bauhaus was an attitude, not a style or a time period.

There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.

To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

I'm lucky that I've worked with the biggest divas in the world. We've had Miss Piggy and Minnie Mouse, so I've got to be careful who I say now, but obviously, I'd love to dress them again.

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.

Our core market has been historically gamers and digital content creators such as car designers and movie makers.

I love 'Beetlejuice' - that's where I met my husband! He designed the sets, so I have nothing but fond memories of that movie.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.

Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

I was very close to Mani Rabadi. She not only designed my clothes in some of my films, she was also a personal friend and guide when I was new to Mumbai.

On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

I like the old-school muscle cars.

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.