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" I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. "
Debbie Allen
Want
Camera
Design
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" Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. "
Christopher Alexander
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Great
" I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. "
Alexander Wang
Design
Work
Walk
" I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. "
Clive Barker
Design
Come
Character
" I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table. "
Rey Mysterio
Always
Feet
Happy
" I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves. "
Yves Behar
Golden
Design
Believe
" I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many, many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, bored by them. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Know
Time
Love
" Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. "
Charles Eames
Condition
Need
Recognizing
" We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company. "
Joe Gebbia
New York
Design
Living
" Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. "
Norman Foster
Design
Place
Culture
" The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed. "
Maya Hawke
Succeed
Art
Design
" 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. "
Zac Posen
People
Me
Creativity
" Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. "
Pierre Bonnard
Quality
Pleasant
Design
" The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers. "
Alan Cooper
Both
Design
Software
" Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. "
Samuel Johnson
Design
Things
Prove
" I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style. "
Yves Behar
Looking
I Am
Technology
" Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design. "
Don Yaeger
Our
Daily
Decisions
" The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. "
Stephen Gardiner
Garden
Design
Beyond
" The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. "
Peter Zumthor
Life
Son
School
" After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. "
Russ Carnahan
Competition
Vision
Great
" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "
Zaha Hadid
People
Building
Design
" I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. "
Alfonso Cuaron
Design
Believe
Thankful
" Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous. "
Yves Behar
Juice
Challenges
Design
" I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is. "
David Carson
Emotion
Design
Story
" My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product. "
Jonathan Ive
Design
Product
Focus
" Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin? "
Neri Oxman
Design
Water
Skin
" Building design isn't trendy. "
Kevin McCloud
Design
Trendy
Building
" Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin. "
Candice Olson
Worst
World
Design
" Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. "
Paul Rand
Technology
Life
Talent
" You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream. "
Giuseppe Zanotti
Think
Fashion
Dream
" A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. "
Frank Gehry
People
Think
Important