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" How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language? "

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" Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. "

" It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the funnel design is very appropriate for the digital world, but despite all the prose written on sales funnels and the like, my question is still the same - when do you close your sales, and how long does that take? "

Michael E. Gerber

" I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. "

" They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. "

Christian Lacroix

" I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture. "

Janina Gavankar

" Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them. "

" 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. "

" There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few. "

" The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me. "

" Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. "

" When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was? "

" Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one. "

First Impression

" 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

" I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers. "

" For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes. "

" The woman I design for is very curious. She loves fashion, but she also is passionate about what is happening around the world. "

" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "

" 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

" I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they have very fine tastes according to art or design. And often, they've spent a big chunk of their childhood or they're growing-up years trying to get in very good at those activities. "

" I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. "

Pharrell Williams

" Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult. "

Christopher Rouse

" Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew. "

Kourtney Kardashian

" 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. "

" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "

" If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science. "

" Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. "

" 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

" Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. "

" If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. "

" Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. "