Designer Quotes
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I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
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As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
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Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.
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We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.
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I love being a fashion designer.
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To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.
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Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.
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I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.
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Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
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I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
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As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.
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Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.
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I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality.
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As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides.
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I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.
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I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
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I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!
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I'm not a scientist. What I find interesting about my work is how, as a designer, I sit between science and the consumer and can see both a need and a solution.
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I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
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I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
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The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
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I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
