Quotes About Design

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Design always has a purpose.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

The design should make the product speak to you.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.