Quotes About Design

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

Copy and paste is a design error.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Everything I have done, am doing, and will do I was supposed to.

Did you hear about the new reversible jackets? I can't wait to see how they turn out.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible

big fancy things, even things with minds, out of processes which are individually stupid, mindless, simple. Just a whole lot of little mindless events occurring over billions of years can create not just order, but design, not just design, but minds, eyes and brains.

The key point to keep in mind, however, is that symmetry is one of the most important tools in deciphering nature's design.

The Golden Rectangle is the only rectangle with the property that cutting a square from it produces a similar rectangle.

The Golden Ratio has the unique properties that we produce its square by simply adding the number 1 and its reciprocal by subtracting the number 1.

being where a waist should be instead of up under the armpits as present fashion decreed.