Quotes About Design

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Typography exists to honor content.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

I'm thinking about doing dusty colors - we definitely are doing as much color as we can. It seems that fashion is back on track with color - I hope. It's been very black for awhile.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.

Tammaru's office looked like NASA's control room designed by Donald Trump.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just to upset the critics.