Quotes About Design

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

If I was designing a home for Libby Strout, it would be exceptional. It would be one of a kind. It would be bright red with a tin roof, at least two stories, possibly more, a state-of-the-art art weather station, and lots of turrets. Also a tower, but not one to lock her in. It would be a place where she could sit and look out over and beyond the town, as far as the horizon, maybe even past it.

What have anxiety-creating engines designed to distract, enervate, and worry you got to do with your mental health?

a huge claw-foot bathtub in the black and white bathroom.

A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.

Korea has the cutest stuff, you know.

In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful.

Mercs used to be styled by a man called Brown Bag. I'm not joking. That was his name. Oh, he said it in Italian to make it sound more interesting, but there's no getting round the fact that Bruno Sacco means Brown Bag.

Design isn't about getting your way, it's not about being a great genius or auteur who is followed by everyone else on the team, and it's not even about doing a great job of communicating your vision to the rest of the team. Design isn't about you; it is about the project. Working as a game designer is about collaborating with the rest of the team, compromising, and above all listening.

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good t the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together. What comfort and encouragement this should be to us.

But note also the twofold objective of God's providence: His own glory and the good of His people. These two objectives are never antithetical; they are always in harmony with each other. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.

He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

They design the car alarm so it will behave as if it was a nervous hysterical person. Anyone goes near it, disturbs it, "Aaaaaahhhhhhh!" Lights flashing on and off, acting all crazy. Wouldn't it be nice to have a car alarm that was a little more subtle? Somebody tries to break in, it goes, "Ahem. Ahem. Excuse me?"