Design Quotes - Page 69

If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't just watch films, go take a walk, look at the sky, read a book about meteorology, look at the design of people's shoes. Because all of them are part of filmmaking." So I thought, perfect! That's a good job for me.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

Race designation is a political designation.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.