Design Quotes - Page 58

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.

The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.