For many years I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose it seems to me must be the improvement of mankind.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
All architecture is shelter all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
When I design buildings I think of the overall composition much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
In my opinion no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
So to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy that's a great reward.
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums concert halls and civic buildings.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Keywords : everything, body
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all good design must primarily serve people.
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.
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.
To design the future effectively you must first let go of your past.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Outside of the chair the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
If you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design manufacturing layout processes and procedures.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
An image is not simply a trademark a design a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual institution corporation product or service.
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.
Obviously I come from one background and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years and they know what works and doesn't work.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions and see what they would be at as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant practice it first upon yourself.
In giving us children God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet according to His perfect design it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
All architecture is shelter all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
As all human beings are in my view creatures of God's design we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy abnormality hobbies and humors.
Art has to move you and design does not unless it's a good design for a bus.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way or a film design that is different but expensive.
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.
Good design begins with honesty asks tough questions comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.
At some point in your life if you're lucky you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
I really see myself continuing to design clothes fragrances.
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
Over the past 20 years I have noticed that the most flexible dynamic inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which like it or not is modern reality.
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
While a case can be made for intelligent design I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
The principle of the design - the harmony rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design manufacturing layout processes and procedures.
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
In both business and personal life I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages cultures scenery food and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.