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		The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Stuyvesant
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Van Hamersveld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paloma Faith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marco Brambilla
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lisa Vanderpump
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Walter Gropius
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martin Rees
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Antonin Artaud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mariam Naficy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Umberto Guidoni
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				April Greiman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mariam Naficy