Quotes About Design

She wondered why modern creations became uglier faster.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

Paso 2: Cancha Coloca bloques para hacerla tan grande como quieras. La mía mide 18 x 37 cuadrados

The abstract, curvilinear motifs of ancient Islamic decorative art found in mosaics and carpet design appear again and again at all scales of magnification on the boundary of the Mandelbrot set.

Arthur C. Clarke thinks that it may be just a coincidence, "but", he writes, "the Mandelbrot set does indeed seem to contain an enormous number of mandalas or religious symbols, which are found in ecclesiastical designs-such as stained glass windows, and particularly in Islamic art. We find many forms like the Paisley pattern echoing the Mandelbrot set centuries before it was discovered!

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

I put the kitch into kitchen.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Where the average person appreciates the beauty of surf and waves, Gus, an engineer, sees only practical design. Gravity, plus ocean current, plus wind. Poetry to the common man is a unicorn viewed from the corner of an eye—an unexpected glimpse of the intangible. To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function over form. It's not a question of optimism or pessimism, a glass half full or half empty. To an engineer, the glass is simply too big.

To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function

Los Angeles is a city that appears to have been built to satisfy somebody's desire for a cigarette.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect

If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet

I think anyone who builds a house without a pole sliding into a secret room is just plain crazy.

Sitting rooms make sense. Bedrooms make sense. But why aren't kitchens called food rooms?

Uniformity of design was considered as fatal to the freshness of imagination.

It's the stars that are imprisoned in their own power, and they cannot really help us. They merely design the nets, and on cosmic looms they weave the warp thread that we must complete with our own weft.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,That was built in such a logical wayIt ran a hundred years to a day?

But the planes have a new elegant shape. Not one unnecessary ornament." "Yes," said Mabo softly and watched the planes fly off through the sky with a childlike innocence. "A form with no unneeded ornaments is nice.