Quotes About Design

I am really fond of accessorizing my car. If the world outside isn't too good looking, at least the car should be nice and comfortable from within.

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it's influenced the great artists of our time.

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

I was so overwhelmed by the amazing response I had from thousands of women saying they felt beautiful in my first collection, I wanted to design more clothes they could love themselves in.

Appearance is stressed far too much in workplace design. What is more relevant is whether the workplace lets you work or inhibits you.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

So design your space for flexibility instead of inertia and the status quo.

Design thinking relies on the natural—and coachable—human ability to be intuitive, to recognize patterns, and to construct ideas that are emotionally meaningful as well as functional.

Golf course design is exciting.

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

The Modern Movement, demanding a new architecture for a new age, swept away these 'styles'. That new architecture was supposed to be metaphor-free. Puzzled viewers soon began to invent their own metaphors. They spoke of cardboard boxes, matchboxes and filing cabinets. Despite designers' outraged protestations, these boxy buildings were metaphors and had meaning. The messages they carried were 'modernity' and 'functionalism'.

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Ed Hardy called . . . he wants his clothes back!

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

The day set out from the east and started walking. The day is on a journey. We're woven into the design of that day, though we're not inventing it

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

Jeg vil gerne rette en særlig tak til Illums Bolighus, fordi de skabte så smagfuldt og fint gennemtænkt et hjem for en familie, der aldrig har eksisteret.