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" I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality. "

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" 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. "

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" Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them. "

" Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. "

" I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "

" So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. "

" Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme! "

" 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

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" What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her. "

" My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection. "

Diane von Furstenberg

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" Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design. "

" The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution. "

" It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. "

" When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen. "

" I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember. "

" At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. "

" If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person. "

" Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. "

" I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator. "

" With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles. "

" I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not. "

" 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. "

" I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business. "

" Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven. "

Sofia Coppola

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" When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to. "

" So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body. "

" Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. "

" I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. "

" Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design. "

" I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around. "

" 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. "