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" America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. "

Mark McKinnon

America

Back

Design

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" I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. "

" I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.' "

Kanye West

Design

Opportunity

" I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is. "

" It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. "

" In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader. "

" Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is to bring on a bunch of detailed design engineers and then not give them clear direction and close supervision. "

" Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth. "

" In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. "

" Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item. "

" Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. "

" I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality. "

" I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. "

" If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person. "

" The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Light

My Life

Clothes

" Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is. "

" It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. "

" I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. "

" Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant. "

" We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers. "

" I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that. "

" How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed. "

" Good design should be honest. "

" The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. "

" I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design. "

" I love the way my tattoos look. I especially love Japanese-style tattoos and being completely sleeved by them, so it's not just these little individual and unrelated pieces, but everything's working together to create a larger design. "

" I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually. "

" A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. "

" 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. "

" I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be. "

" Be intentional with your space. Don't be afraid to step on a limb and design your home the way you love it. "