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Quotes About Design

From the initial design stages of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,' we had the idea of the player being able to move dynamically through a detailed, multi-layered map. We found that a 'shinobi' type character was the key to achieving this in a way that was both realistic and cool.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!
~ Susan Vreeland
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
~ Indya Moore
People have asked why the new currency introduced was different in size and thickness from the old. This is because the new currency has been designed to make it hard to counterfeit. When you are going to make a change of this magnitude, you need to get the best standards in place.
~ Urjit Patel
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
~ Arnold Palmer
Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.
~ Stephen Charnock
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation
~ Steve Jobs
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?
~ Philip Caldwell
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
~ Josh Billings
There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.
~ Yohji Yamamoto
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
~ William Morris
All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
~ Dieter Rams
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
~ John Milton
Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.
~ Tim Gunn
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
~ Aristotle
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.
~ Emilio Pucci
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
~ Terence
Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.
~ Theophile Gautier