Louise Wilson Quotes

I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.

Louise Wilson

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• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Man
  • Design
  • Gay

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Want
  • Design

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Design

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
  • City

• 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.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Team
  • Style
  • Design

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Yourself

• I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Proud
  • Design
  • Projects

• I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Design
  • Process

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Design

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Future
  • Design

• I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Music
  • Important
  • School

• I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Up
  • Money
  • Remember

• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Life
  • Up
  • Red

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Design