Design Quotes
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This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
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I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.
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If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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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.
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
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It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
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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?
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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.
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I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
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To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
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Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world.
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My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
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I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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I don't think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot of me working in the design industry. For example, if I am mixing and matching prints on my sofas and cushion covers, I tend to do that with my wardrobe as well.
