Quotes about Design

“There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.”

“I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.”

“I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.”

“When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.”

“I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.”

“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

“I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.”

“In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.”

“The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.”

“I could design an $800 shoe line; it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.”

“People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.”

“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”

“Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.”

“If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.”

“I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.”

“When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”

“Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.”

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”

“'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.”

“My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.”

“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.”