Design Quotes

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

The primary factor is proportions.

Design is people.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I won't give up my day job of design.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

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

I am always locked in my design studio.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.