Design Quotes
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For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
Colleen Atwood
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Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Bjarke Ingels
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Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
David Pye
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It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
George Edmund Street
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
Zaha Hadid
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The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
L. Bruce Archer
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Designing Woman was written for the screen.
Vincente Minnelli
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats
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There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.
Cedric Price
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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.
Marc Newson
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Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.
Camille Henrot
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Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.
Kenneth R. Miller
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You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
Elsa Peretti
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Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.
Anouska Hempel
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I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
Cindy Gallop
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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.
Neville Brody
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The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
C. S. Lewis
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At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.
Neri Oxman
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Arthur Erickson
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A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.
William McDonough
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When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.
Yvon Chouinard
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I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.
Carolina Herrera