Quotes About Design

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.

Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.

I've always been obsessed with fashion.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

I'm obsessed with jackets.

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.