Design Quotes - Page 22

We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Another word for creativity is courage.

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were

Think more design less

When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.