Design Quotes
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When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.
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I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
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Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
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I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
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I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.
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I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.
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So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
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Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.
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After doing some research with my agent, we found out Klipsch was an official Colts partner, and they were based in Indianapolis, which only added to my esteem for the company. I also have a passion for design and technology that developed while I was at Stanford and appreciate the quality of Klipsch's speakers and headphones.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
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While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in Detroit - and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
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There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as a way to weed out diseases. Of course you know it ultimately will be used in a bad way too, to create slaves or servants.
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I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.
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If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.
