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" I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones. "
Catherine Martin
Ugly
Design
History
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" I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality. "
Claudia Schiffer
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Good
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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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" We have the largest digital design studio in the world. "
Pierre Nanterme
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Largest
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" Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. "
Paul Rand
Invention
Design
Good
" One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. "
Colleen Atwood
Think
People
Design
" Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role. "
Dieter Rams
Help
People
Things
" I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for. "
Colleen Atwood
Back
Design
Fashion
" From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations. "
Baba Kalyani
Value
Design
Challenge
" It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. "
Genevieve Gorder
Power
Money
Stupid
" When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture. "
Jonathan Ive
Deep
Successful
Made
" People might not know, but F1 drivers have new helmets made throughout the season. Usually, the design is the same, but I like to do something special for Monaco. "
Lewis Hamilton
Design
Know
Like
" When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it. "
Jenny Packham
Fall
Design
Desire
" The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. "
Jonathan Ive
Thinking
Culture
Design
" We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. "
David Brainerd
Good
God
Great
" 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
" My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection. "
Rei Kawakubo
Life
Daily Life
Daily
" I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. "
Anna Quindlen
Think
People
Kind
" Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. "
Henry Petroski
Design
Failure
Process
" It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. "
Jil Sander
Sound
May
Hope
" Fashion fades, only style remains the same. "
Coco Chanel
Same
Only
Fashion
" 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. "
Carroll Shelby
End
Together
Work
" Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth. "
Jens Martin Skibsted
Powerful
Long
Growth
" Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly. "
Amber Valletta
Design
Take
Things
" We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us. "
Anne-Marie Willis
Back
World
Us
" With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos. "
Andre Aciman
Life
Design
Chaos
" I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it. "
Henry Petroski
Me
Time
Work
" Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand. "
Giuseppe Zanotti
You
Work
Myself
" There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? "
Michael Kors
Happy
Enjoy
Life
" British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. "
Margaret Heffernan
World
Innovation
Design
" By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives. "
Rogier van der Heide
Light
Interesting
Darkness