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" I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line. "

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" I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day. "

" When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?' "

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" They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. "

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" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

" Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. "

" The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me. "

" I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. "

" Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident. "

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" When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. "

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" Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. "

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" At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time. "

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" I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. "

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" I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture. "

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" I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are. "