Designers Quotes

• Branding is something designers think about a lot. You take something like a perfume or car tire, or butt-flavored bubblegum, and you ask questions about it that you shouldn't be able to ask. What kind of tuxedo would this car tire wear to the prom? What is this perfume's favorite movie? You try to end up in a place where you understand a product as if it is a person.

  

  Hank Green
  • Perfume
  • Branding
  • Car tire

• Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.

  

  Antoni Porowski
  • Attention
  • Public
  • Designers

• I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

  

  Suzy Amis
  • Dresses
  • Designers
  • Reuse

• Archway is where the post-war dream of the urban motorway died in the teeth of local opposition and the inability of the designers to answer basic traffic management questions.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Dream
  • Opposition
  • Archway

• I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Concept
  • Commerce
  • Designers

• Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

  

  Keith Duckworth
  • Ignorance
  • Development
  • Necessary

• Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.

  

  Steve Krug
  • Designers
  • Users
  • Cues

• Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Music
  • Actors
  • Designers

• A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.

  

  John Varvatos
  • Party
  • Hot
  • Designers

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