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" Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything. "
Henry Petroski
Design
Website
Bridge
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" Design is not for philosophy it's for life. "
Issey Miyake
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" I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature shoes for Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway. When it was time to select high schools, I wanted to go to one that would help me get a jump-start on my dream. "
Kerby Jean-Raymond
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" 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.' "
Yves Behar
Love
Life
Myself
" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "
D. H. Lawrence
Creative
Art
Eyes
" 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. "
Bruce Pittman
You
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" A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art. "
Neri Oxman
Think
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" At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time. "
Roger Staubach
Service
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Risks
" I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. "
Mary J. Blige
See
Up
Colors
" I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. "
James Cameron
Over
Moving
Design
" 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. "
Paul Farmer
Health
Start
Service
" I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. "
David Brainerd
Design
Service
World
" My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be. "
Peter Marino
People
Sorry
Think
" We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. "
Cesar Pelli
Proud
Will
Design
" Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do. "
Robert Winston
Design
Never
Go
" When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. "
Cameron Sinclair
Technology
Broken
Community
" I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. "
Henry Petroski
Engineering
Failure
Measure
" I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful. "
Ed Westwick
Humble
Flowers
Beautiful
" The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source? "
Rihanna
Street
Stylish
Back
" The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. "
Friedrich August von Hayek
Curious
How
Know
" I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films. "
Pawan Kalyan
Design
Fall
Me
" The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. "
Neri Oxman
Design
World
Production
" Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. "
John Malkovich
Me
Design
School
" 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
" Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences. "
Joe Gebbia
Furniture
Design
Everyday
" 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
" The space within becomes the reality of the building. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Space
Within
Design
" I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are. "
Henry Petroski
Good
Success
Failure
" I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. "
Johnny Weir
Influence
Music
Power
" I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. "
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