Quotes About Design

I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is a design statement, an engineering marvel, and something that really redefines tomorrow.

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

I love a bold statement piece!

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.

I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

Stella McCartney is just the coolest show to do. I love the collection. I love the setting. All of her stuff always feels so fresh.

Be intentional with your space. Don't be afraid to step on a limb and design your home the way you love it.

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Good design is good business.