Marc Newson Quotes
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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My philosophy is to be me.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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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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When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.
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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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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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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 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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All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
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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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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
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But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
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People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.
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So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
