Quotes About Design

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

It must be that sometimes our assertions about higher order and hidden design are fables we've made up to help us ignore our own contingency. Accidents tear

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

For me, the most important consideration is to choose attire that is functional, but looks stylish too. That means going for colors that are understated and use smart fabrics.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.

Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?

I am a maker of useful things.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

I'm a big user of digital technology, but I don't find it beautiful.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.