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I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it.

– Nicola Formichetti

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, ‘I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.’ Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don’t have the nerve.

– Dan Phillips

When I met Dante I didn’t work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

– Francesca Lo Schiavo

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

– Martin Filler

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don’t design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don’t really care, as long as we’re selling the one the customer wants.

– Michael Dell

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a ‘crowd’ accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

– Peter Diamandis

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

– Friedrich August von Hayek

Programs like ACE’s Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

– Gina Raimondo

We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.

– Cesar Pelli

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.

– David Chipperfield

I design from instinct. It’s the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

– Donna Karan

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

– Dieter Rams

Considering my specialization in architecture, I’m not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s ‘Batman: Death by Design.’

– Martin Filler

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it’s the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

– Mitch Kapor

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

– Evgeny Morozov

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.

– Dave Eggers

I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends – I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

– Naeem Khan

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good design should be honest.

– Ferdinand Porsche

I’m opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don’t waver.

– Douglas Wilson

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

– Mary Astell

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

– Frank Lloyd Wright

I design for the working girl.

– Elsa Peretti

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn’t really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

– Michael Hansmeyer

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don’t see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

– Norman Foster

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

– Michael Graves

Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future.

– Charles Pelly

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

– Michael Graves

There is a new hunger in the air for automotive design and looking to where automobiles are going in the future. Tesla will capture this through good design and engineering.

– Franz von Holzhausen

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

– Charles Bass

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