Quotes about Design

“My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.”

“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

“I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.”

“I always wanted to design for films.”

“Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.”

“Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.”

“Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.”

“The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.”

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

“I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.”

“A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.”

“Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'”

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”

“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

“User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.”

“I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.”

“My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.”

“I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.”

“Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.”