Design Quotes

• Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Energy
  • Information
  • Labour

• The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • Design
  • Model
  • Unique

• Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sadness
  • Misery
  • Confinement

• The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

  

  Saul Griffith
  • People
  • Principal
  • Heirlooms

• When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Enough
  • Should
  • Young

• What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

  

  George Gilder
  • Intelligent
  • Teach
  • Controversy

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Design

• Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Education
  • Design
  • Memorial

• How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Technology
  • Marketing
  • Sales

• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Design
  • Painting
  • Color

• Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

  

  Martin Filler
  • Death
  • Architecture
  • Batman

• Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

  

  Neville Brody
  • Design
  • Painting
  • Dries

• Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

  

  Clyde Butcher
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Texture

• I design some of my own clothes now.

  

  Kiernan Shipka
  • Design

• You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Design

• In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Design

• The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Technology
  • Attitude
  • Architecture

• I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

  

  John Katzman
  • Fashion
  • Fly
  • Planning

• The new package design and label reflect decades of experience and everything we know about effectively communication with today's consumer.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Experience
  • Communication
  • Consumer

• Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Design

• Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Nature
  • Design

• There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • High
  • Fashion

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