Quotes about Design

“Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.”

“Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.”

“Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.”

“Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.”

“There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.”

“The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.”

“As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.”

“Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.”

“The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.”

“I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'”

“When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.”

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”

“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.”

“By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.”

“Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.”

“I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.”

“I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.”

“A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don't incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.”

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

“I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.”

“Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.”