Quotes About Design

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.