Quotes About Design

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Vogue has always loved the design and structure of bridges and she loves Albert Bridge, which we live right next to.

Amazon could also be the next Vogue, the next designer, the next WGSN.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.

For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Very seldom do I use white in my books.

We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.

I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.