Quotes About Design

I'll bet you can't tell me who designed the garden. I'll give you a clue: it's later than the house.' 'I've only ever heard of one landscape gardener,' said Harry, still staring at the house. 'Capability Brown.' 'That's exactly why we chose him,' said Giles, 'simply so that my friends would have heard of the fellow two hundred years later.' Harry

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Since 1818, the city had spread out along the river, warehouse by warehouse, factory by factory. Judge Woodward's wheels had been squashed, bisected, pressed into the usual rectangles.

Judge Woodward envisioned the new Detroit as an urban Arcadia of interlocking hexagons. Each wheel was to be separate yet united. This dream never quite came to be. Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

Deming argued that if there are performance problems and quality defects, one needs to understand how those problems arise almost naturally as a consequence of how a system has been designed—and then fix those design flaws. Put simply, attack the problems by fixing the system, not scapegoating the necessarily fallible human beings working in and operating that system—whether or not they deserved it.

In Waco, once best known for the Branch Davidian standoff between David Koresh and the ATF, Chip and Joanna have created a new cult, one of affordable design.

the floor and cubbyholes for mail against the wall. Upstairs the rooms were airy, with high ceilings and walls

There's even a shirt for them." "What does it say? I Brake for Fonts?" "No. It just says Helvetica, which is a very well-known and well-loved font, but the T-shirt's font is in Comic Sans, which font nerds absolutely detest." Julie

I was fitted with a specially designed compression filter that allows excessive information to lie dormant until I need to access it. It's only the beta version, so excuse any kinks that may appear. I really can't be held responsible.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

The more I work in fashion, the less I dress up. The first pair of jeans I made was for my own body-my "strange body," as I call it.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

To have a complete outfit designed, for me, is easier than trying to find pieces that work together.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.