If you asked a team of expert psychologists and sociological researchers to come up with a design that was sure to infuriate and offend liberals in America, they’d probably come up with what we call the Great Seal. – Mike Gallagher
I don’t start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. – Mike Davidson
In two days, it’s hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. – Douglas Wilson
Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate. – Mariam Naficy
Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design. – Mickey Drexler
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. – Genevieve Gorder
I’m looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it’s about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they’ve done just inspires me. – Millard Drexler
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can’t do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer. – Cesar Pelli
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology. – David Bromstad
When you have really good writing, you’re compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it’s the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you’re like, ‘Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.’ – David Costabile
My stylist has really great taste – Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I’ve gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it’s easier to say, ‘I like that’ or ‘I don’t like that,’ but it’s nothing I would ever, you know, design. – Emma Stone
When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality. – Donatella Versace
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration. – Nate Berkus
I don’t design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. – Dries van Noten
At some point in your life, if you’re lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. – Daniel Day-Lewis
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they’d go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life – unless you live it? – Michael Kors
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it’s not by design. The United States dominates because it’s the biggest market. – Norman Spinrad
I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for – a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum. – Marc Koska
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. – Genevieve Gorder
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows. – Frank Zappa
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. – David Hume
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design. – Fritz Zwicky
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. – Guido van Rossum
The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the ‘engineering’ side of economic theory. – Eric Maskin
A lot of people don’t get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it’s important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. – Frank Gehry
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. – Norman Foster
