Quotes About Design

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I call architecture frozen music.

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights.

I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my fashion idols. Everything she creates is really fresh.

I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

the text etched onto the back of each iPhone—"Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China"—is highly misleading. The iPhone's most irreplaceable components are indeed designed in California and assembled in China. But they can only be made in Taiwan.

they began discussing how to standardize chip design. Why couldn't you program a machine to design circuits, they wondered. "Once you can write a program to do something," Mead declared, "you don't need anybody's tool kit, you write your own.

paving the way for computer programs to automate chip design.

The design is carved into silicon using some of the world's most precise machinery

The greatest beneficiary of the rise of foundries like TSMC was a company that most people don't even realize designs chips: Apple. The company Steve Jobs built has always specialized in hardware, however, so it's no surprise that Apple's desire to perfect its devices includes controlling the silicon inside.

Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.

The drops (polio vaccine) were designed,said these believers. Their intention and effect was genocidal. Nobody was to swallow them, or administer them to infants. Within months, polio was back...