Design Quotes
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I felt my design point of view was more welcomed in New York, that I could show my collections in the way I wanted to show them.
Jenny Packham -
All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.
George Washington
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Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.
Joe Gebbia -
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
Elon Musk -
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
Will Self -
It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
Serena Williams -
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
Sonny John Moore -
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
William McDonough
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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.
William A. Dembski -
I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete.
Collier Schorr -
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
William Bernbach -
What we strive for is how we can provide the best performance and best design, whatever the customers want.
Pranav Mistry -
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
Naoto Fukasawa -
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
Saul Griffith
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Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.
Aza Raskin -
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
Bruce Sterling -
I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.
Serena Williams -
Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )
Seymour Cray -
The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.
Bob Barton -
I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.
Kevin Kwan
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
James Dyson -
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
Sergio Aragones -
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
Karl Lagerfeld -
There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.
William Gibson