Quotes About Design

Carpo explains what this represents: "Algorithms, software, hardware and digital manufacturing tools are the new standards of product design.… Unlike a mechanical imprint, which physically stamps the same form onto objects, an algorithmic imprint lets outward and visible forms change and morph from one object to the next.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Frontend engineering rocks right now.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

Justice flows from God's own being and designates the way God intends the world to be. But things have fallen into disorder; the shalom of creation has been ruptured. God responds by seeking to restore the world to the way it ought to be.

Architectural gestures affect us in similar ways to human gestures.

I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.

A goose instinctively heads south in a V-formation in a V formed of other geese instinctively heading south. It doesn't check out the beach and experiment with a sandpiper lifestyle. It does what it's designed to do.

It's so beautifully made,' she said. 'It's like a Prada shoe.

hand-crafted chair like an Arne Jacobsen or a Hans Wegner or a Børge Mogensen,' Charlotte goes on. 'Your average Danish home might also have a designer lamp like Poul Henningsen's PH or an Arne Jacobsen AJ from Louis Poulsen. Then

great art and design can even induce the same brain activity as being in love – something Denmark cottoned on to 90-odd years ago.

When we surround ourselves with quality design, it influences our mood. If our surroundings are nice, we feel cosy and safe. It makes us happier.

Research shows that great art and design can even induce the same brain activity as being in love – something Denmark cottoned on to 90-odd years ago.

It becomes clear that cleanliness is next to Danishness ... from an early age they develop an understanding that functional yet beautiful design is essential to realising the good life.

central concern of interaction design is to develop interactive products that are usable. By this we mean products that are generally easy to learn, effective to use, and provide an enjoyable user experience.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?