Quotes About Design

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

I once had this idea that I wanted to make the perfect boxer short that's not too long, not too short, with pearl buttons, made from real shirting fabric. They were coming in at $215. Well, not even the richest guy in the world is going to pay more than $125 for his underwear.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

I like feminine suits with unexpected details.

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality