Quotes About Design

I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

My work is always very geometric.

Things always work according to their nature.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Attractive things work better.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

For 'Minecraft,' it actually started with an isometric strategy game.

There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

I do believe that most startups who develop applications and digital products design 'towards the middle.' By this, I mean they design their products to reach the broadest consumer base possible, which is a sound strategy in some respects.