Design Quotes - Page 53

I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

All typefaces are historical.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

A single word often betrays a great design.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . .

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their immediate aims, this mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

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