Design Quotes · Page 31

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when…

— Alexander McQueen

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

— Minoru Mori

If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?

— Will Evans

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

— Albert Hadley

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

— Claudia Schiffer

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

— Wim Crouwel

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

— Maria Montessori

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

— Barry W. Lynn

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

— Debbie Millman

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

— Ron Jeffries

“Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source…

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Stephen Kanner

Design should revolve around what the main purpose of the space is. If you plan to live there, it should reflect your…

— Gauri Khan

The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in…

— Rodney Collin

Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve…

— Daniel H. Pink

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government…

— Joseph Sobran

I have always known about the quality of Asics products, so when they approached me, I was really receptive. They explained what…

— Gael Monfils

When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie…

— Rachel Morrison

The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural…

— John Todd

“4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its…

— Tom McDonough

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's…

— Stephen Hawking

Fashion design is an important part of the creative industry that means the most to women.

— Carrie Lam

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

— Stephen Gardiner

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

— Margaret Heffernan

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

— Clement Mok

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

— Fred Brooks

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

— Don Tapscott

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

— John M. Carroll

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

— Thomas Chalmers

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

— Tim Gunn

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

— Walter Tracy

True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.

— Edwin Schlossberg

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

— Herb Lubalin

“BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!”

— Steve Maraboli

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

— Adrian Frutiger

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

— Nancy Lancaster