429 private quotes tagged design

“French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.” — Christian Lacroix

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

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“The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.” — Anthony Holden

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“Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.” — Jonathan Ive

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“You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.” — Mike Rogers

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“The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.” — Christian Siriano

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“The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'” — Alexander Wang

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“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.” — Jesse James Garrett

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“After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.” — Russ Carnahan

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“I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'” — Claudia Schiffer

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“I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.” — Tim Gunn

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“With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.” — Tim Gunn

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“Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.” — Barbara Kruger

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“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.” — David Coverdale

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

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“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.” — David Brainerd

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“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.” — St. Vincent

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“So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.” — Robert Rauschenberg

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“But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.” — Niklaus Wirth

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“Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.” — Niklaus Wirth

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“I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.” — Trent Reznor

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“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.” — Richard Powers

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“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

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“Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.” — Marc Newson

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“Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.” — Marc Newson

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