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" Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift. "

Kelly Wearstler

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" In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. "

" It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format. "

" We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self. "

" People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems! "

Michael E. Gerber

" Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. "

" Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. "

" I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority. "

" I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. "

" I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing. "

" When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path. "

Narciso Rodriguez

" The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. "

Olivier Theyskens

" I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. "

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

" I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.' "

" I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing. "

" I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that. "

" Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. "

Francisco Costa

" My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My first decision is always based on, 'Can I do this in a more sustainable way without sacrificing design?' If I can, then there is no reason not to. "

Stella McCartney

" I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. "

" Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good. "

" My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them. "

Kelly Wearstler

" 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. "

" Design is everything. Everything! "

" 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. "

" Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. "