Design Quotes - Page 26

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Design does not really interest me

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the philosophy can use to meet their goals and design a world in which human needs are met while enhancing the health of this miraculous planet that supports us.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.