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The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.
You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.
I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.
You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.
The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.
I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.
Your home should be an extension of you and who you are as a person. If you can come home, and actually feel at home... that's fantastic design.
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.
CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.
Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.
I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.