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There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
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.
Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.
Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.
Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.
90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.
The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.
Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.
I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually
I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.
Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.
Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.