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" I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in. "

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" I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time. "

Stefan Sagmeister

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Design

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" To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for. "

Joe Gebbia

Design

Thinking

" My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks. "

" I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. "

" We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. "

" Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is. "

" Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place. "

James Blake

Sound

Design

" A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Chair

Design

Difficult

" Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. "

" Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. "

" When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team. "

" This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it. "

" My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others. "

" Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. "

" There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots. "

" At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them. "

" I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. "

" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "

" I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. "

" I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Design

Know

Everything

" 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

Creativity

" The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same. "

" The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. "

Harry Bertoia

Good

Living

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

" Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits. "

" To me, 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. "

" I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. "

" Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. "

" It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. "

" We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it. "