Quotes About Design

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

I just take inspiration from anything that visually stimulates me.

A rug doesn't have to be pricey but for maximum oomph it must be sizeable and not stingy.

With my fashion knowledge, I do stitch things randomly at times.

I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.

I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly.

When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

I love the '60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it - everyone looked great - but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

The best way to maximize storage in a small space is with custom cabinets.

'Starcraft' was never designed to support multi-byte languages. In order to support more complicated languages like Korean or Chinese, you need two bytes of storage and 'Starcraft' only had one byte.

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

To me, when you decorate your home with just one store, it looks like that - it looks like a catalog.

I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind glass making what amounts to a couture pair of jeans.

I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

Designing wasn't something that I was always into, but I wasn't able to find clothes that I wanted to wear. I wanted to be able to walk into any store and have an idea of what I want and go and get it.

When I go into a store and find a T-shirt that's well-designed with a great fabric but the fit is all wrong, the T-shirt is ruined for me.

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.