Quotes About Design

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

I love taking elements and colours from nature and then distorting them somehow.

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

There's nothing worse than coming home to a room that looks like a catalog.

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

I was actually a communications major and had never done design.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.