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" Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. "
Donna Karan
Style
Good
Effort
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" My job at the end of the day is to design timeless, desirable, beautiful products. It's not about just designing a bunch of organic jumpers. I have a balance within the brand. If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance. "
Stella McCartney
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" Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven. "
Sofia Coppola
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" Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement. "
Michael Korda
Film
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Detail
" Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. "
Camille Paglia
World
Past
Over
" If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. "
Zaha Hadid
Building
You
Kind
" Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. "
Genevieve Gorder
Impact
Live
People
" I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything. "
Carroll Shelby
End
Together
Work
" I love doing fittings and seeing women look really confident in their clothes because they're not wearing something too boxy but that really shows off their figures. Everybody has a different figure - it's important to design for different shapes. "
Emilia Wickstead
Love
Clothes
Women
" 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 always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. "
John Adams
Opening
America
Wonder
" I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually. "
Xavier Dolan
Costumes
Movies
Design
" Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. "
Cynthia Rowley
Art
Body
Think
" I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to. "
Yves Behar
Story
History
Business
" I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say. "
Meghan Markle
American
Say
Design
" From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations. "
Baba Kalyani
Value
Design
Challenge
" I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. "
Tom Ford
Fashion
Love
Me
" The details are not the details. They make the design. "
Charles Eames
Design
Details
Make
" The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. "
Stephen Gardiner
Garden
Design
Beyond
" It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. "
Jil Sander
Sound
May
Hope
" Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. "
Ivan Chermayeff
Solution
Problems
Human
" Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design. "
Don Yaeger
Our
Daily
Decisions
" My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level. "
Steven Holl
Heat
Wall
Design
" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "
Bill Gates
Better
Competition
You
" When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task. "
Yves Behar
Ready
Say
Want
" Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. "
Elon Musk
Broken
Needs
Design
" The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. "
Noam Chomsky
Design
Principles
Attack
" In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all. "
Neri Oxman
Design
Engineering
Nature
" I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative. "
Donna Karan
Creative
I Am
Husband
" Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. "
Dieter Rams
Good
Making
Great
" Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. "
John Langdon
Words
Science
Language