Quotes About Design

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use

A kdo si zakládá domov, a? si za?izuje vše sám.

L'architecture éveille en l'homme des états d'âme.. La tâche des architectes est de préciser ces états d'âmes.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

It's something I am very passionate about, designing clothes and being creative and fashion-forward.

I've always been passionate about fashion.

I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.

I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.