Nelly Ben Hayoun Quotes
Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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I love science fiction.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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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.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
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I like to design funky things, and I love to mix prints and patterns together.
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A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
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When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
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If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.
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Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.
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I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.
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If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.
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It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.
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Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
