Quotes About Design

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.

Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

I work in three shades of black.

My favorite project is always the next one.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.