Quotes About Design

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

I never met a model I didn't like," says Nick Laws in The Shallow Man (The Dolce Vita Press, 2010/thedolcevitapress.com)

like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

Cruelty could be designed-out. It's advertising is deficient.

When I examine my experimental research, I find to my embarrassment I rarely provided a control condition. What could I have possibly learned from these ill-designed experiments? The answer (it surprised me) is that you can test theoretical models without a control condition.

If science is to encompass these objects and phenomena in which human purpose as well as natural law are embodied, it must have means for relating these two disparate components. The character of these means and their implications for certain areas of knowledge economics, psychology, and design in particular are the central concern of this book.

[On an architectural design by Santiago Calatrava:] A city is never more fully human than when expertise—our own or someone else's—allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?

Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.

He makes a gesture, designed to impersonate frankness.

He glances up again, and recognizes Gregory's design. It is a system of holy simplicity: big papers on the bottom, small ones on top.

Henry had sat up: 'I can do as it pleases me,' his monarch said. 'God would not allow my pleasure to be contrary to his design, nor my designs to be impeded by his will.' A shadow of cunning had crossed his face. 'And Gardiner himself said so.' Henry

I always have a plan," she said, rising her eyebrows. "Sometimes, even, a scheme. You should be taking lessons from me.

Brambleweft starts to sketch- billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures. Butterflies alighting along arms and in elaborate headpieces. I am charmed at the alien vision of myself- my corset will have two golden beetles stitched in what looks like a breastplate, with Madoc's moon crest and elaborate swirls of shining thread continuing down my front, and tiny sheer drop sleeves of more gold.

man who designs neon signs for a living and whose most passionate interest is cars? Before I met Ben, I was one of those girls who was deliberately, prettily

Hearing a client say 'The CEO was quite impressed with your design concepts' could never compare with the intense pleasure Grace felt hearing a four-year-old say 'I laughed until forever!

Polo sheets is what I lands on.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.