Quotes about Design

“When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.”

“I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.”

“So much of design is context.”

“We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.”

“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?”

“Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.”

“I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.”

“I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.”

“Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.”

“But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.”

“I love design.”

“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.”

“Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.”

“I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.”

“It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.”

“Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.”

“Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.”

“Design is an unknown.”

“There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.”

“I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.”

“I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.”