Design Quotes - Page 85

The really blisteringly original games are incredibly simple.

I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.

My hope is that design thinking becomes an innovative discipline and not just the trend of the decade. As a nation and globally, we have some of the biggest problems to solve we have ever faced. We need innovative ways to solve our problems and communicating the solutions will be paramount. Original thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration are all important skills for our future.

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he decided that his design was not being followed - which was a gross violation, by the way, of private property rights, because the building was his.

I love telling press the designers I'm wearing, especially if they are emerging. That's exciting to me, supporting talented newcomers.

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.

Inclusive Design can bring together commercial and social benefits

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead of punished. Risk taking is the norm instead of the exception. Some companies have already embraced this type of culture change with impressive results.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.