Design Quotes
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.
I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.
Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.
Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.
Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'
The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.