Design Quotes - Page 74

I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.

Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what celebrities wear on the red carpet!

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

Perfectionism is the death of a great room.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in small quantities. Ultimately, the design has to be great - no one will buy it if it looks like a hemp sack!

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

Good design is serious business.