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" I love doing fittings and seeing women look really confident in their clothes because they're not wearing something too boxy but that really shows off their figures. Everybody has a different figure - it's important to design for different shapes. "

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Leon Krier

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" Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power. "

" But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. "

" After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. "

" I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around. "

" 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. "

" We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky. "

" I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually. "

" In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience. "

" 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

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" I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. "

" There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them. "

" If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. "

" 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. "

" In contemplating what to do with my life, I felt like I had two possible paths: one was to move to New York and work in a design house; the other was to move to Africa and deliver food aid. That's when the idea of the FEED bag came to me. It's for those who want to put their consumer dollars to good use. "

Lauren Bush

Food

Good

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

" The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. "

" While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images. "

" I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear. "

" When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! "

" This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers. "

Giorgio Armani

Fashion

People

" Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. "

" Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable. "

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

" Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. "

" I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything. "

" Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital. "

" 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

" I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years. "

" Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. "