Design Quotes - Page 93

So much of design is context.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

If his order from the president is to build a wall, John Kelly will build a wall. And I've got a design out there and I hope it's considered. There are other good designs out there. But he will get it done. He's a doer.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

Designers devote their efforts to change.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.

Designing a tour is a daily thing. I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything

Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.