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" Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. "
Christopher Alexander
Problems
Environmental
Great
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" Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. "
Skrillex
Music
Culture
Design
" Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. "
Drew Endy
Design
Understanding
Want
" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "
Craig Venter
Better
Nature
Know
" To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for. "
Joe Gebbia
Design
Thinking
Me
" I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Value
Design
Personal
" Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected. "
Jonathan Ive
Understanding
Culture
Apple
" Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design. "
Katie Hafner
Design
Work
Knowledge
" Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired. "
Dylan Lauren
Watching
Design
Clothes
" As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. "
Norman Foster
Present
You
Past
" Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. "
Lance Armstrong
Know
Work
People
" Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one. "
Jay Samit
First
First Impression
You
" I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?' "
Neri Oxman
Myself
Better
Creation
" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "
Robert Scoble
Design
You
Hacker
" To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. "
Christopher Alexander
Building
Wilderness
Quality
" Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. "
Paul Rand
Does
Date
Good
" 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. "
Charles Pollock
Alive
You
Chair
" After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. "
Arthur Erickson
Design
Evidence
Space
" It takes a real designer to design for real women. "
Leslie Jones
Real
Takes
Design
" I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business. "
Mary Steenburgen
Business
Paint
Love
" Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator. "
Lee Strobel
Faith
Design
I Can
" One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. "
Jonathan Ive
Learning
Team
Together
" I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects. "
Ivanka Trump
Interior
Projects
Trump
" Design is everything. Everything! "
Paul Rand
Design
Everything
" The opportunity ahead of us in terms of transforming how we design and build, how we manufacture, is even greater than some of the product innovation that we're going to bring to the table. "
Dennis Muilenburg
Innovation
Opportunity
Design
" How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? "
Kinky Friedman
You
Texas
Believe
" They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. "
Christian Lacroix
Design
Say
They Say
" Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness. "
Jens Martin Skibsted
Bicycle
Planning
System
" I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism. "
Travis Scott
Criticism
People
Think
" Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. "
Alvar Aalto
Design
Step
Staircase
" You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in. "
Joe Gebbia
Experience
Design
Good