Design Quotes - Page 57

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear to betray some hidden intelligence which by a preconceived plan produces the impression of intentional design, a phenomenon which finds its close analogue in nature.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?

I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

For one thing, I don`t teach graphic design ; I teach people to find their own strengths. Second, I don`t hold back anything for myself. I share everything I know. I get back much more than I receive.

One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?