Louise Wilson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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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.
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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.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
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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.
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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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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.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.'
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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And that one hunting, which the Devil design'dFor one fair female, lost him half the kind.
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Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
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I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.
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The majority of Puerto Ricans in Florida and New York are Democrats, but nonetheless, we have Republican governors.
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I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
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I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
