Quotes about Design

“I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.”

“Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.”

“Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.”

“Art is to be free. Design is to fix.”

“After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.”

“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.”

“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.”

“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.”

“I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies.”

“You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.”

“You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.”

“Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.”

“The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.”

“I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I can't perform, I can't design clubs, but I was an enthusiast. My gift was that I said yes to everybody.”

“Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.”

“For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.”

“Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.”

“I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.”

“Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.”

“Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.”

“A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.”