Quotes About Design

My passion is really candy, but I know that I can use art and fashion as inspiration.

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I do love sparse cartooning.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

Chairs are like sculpture.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

Creative content is challenging, no matter what, and animation is particularly challenging.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

I love Charlotte Olympia and Sophia Webster shoes best - they're like art for the feet.

You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most other superheroes.

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.

Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is to bring on a bunch of detailed design engineers and then not give them clear direction and close supervision.

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.