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I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.
Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.
When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.
When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.
Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.
Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.
They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.
It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.
The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don’t yet know what B is.
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.
An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.
I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...
I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.