Design Quotes
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I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.
Charles Gwathmey
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There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.
Kelly Wearstler
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So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
Debi Thomas
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Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin
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I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
Bran Ferren
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With the clothes I design, I think about my friends, how I'd want them to dress, what I'd want them to wear.
Jeremy Scott
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan
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Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
Frei Otto
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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'
Brian Grazer
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
Martin Filler
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I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.
Dries van Noten
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We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.
Lee Unkrich
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I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.
David Carson
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There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.
Louise Erdrich
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Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
Jamais Cascio
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I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.
Chris Kirkpatrick
NSYNC
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I do believe that most startups who develop applications and digital products design 'towards the middle.' By this, I mean they design their products to reach the broadest consumer base possible, which is a sound strategy in some respects.
Kimberly Bryant
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Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.
Valentino Garavani