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" I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. "
Robert Rodriguez
Story
Movies
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" I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous. "
Candice Olson
Me
Home
Creative
" 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. "
Twiggy
Team
You
Older
" I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle! "
Narciso Rodriguez
Design
Student
Train
" It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. "
Jean Nouvel
Work
Place
Be Different
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
You
Character
Design
" 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
Great
Good
Design
" My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level. "
Steven Holl
Heat
Wall
Design
" Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. "
Donald Norman
Over
Always
Control
" There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. "
Howard Jacobson
Rise
Rest
Small
" I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves. "
Yves Behar
Golden
Design
Believe
" Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. "
Alvar Aalto
Design
Step
Staircase
" We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making. "
Jonathan Ive
Struggle
Apple
Design
" 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
See
Up
Colors
" 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. "
Walter Gropius
Life
Design
Intellectual
" Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges. "
Jens Martin Skibsted
Questions
Challenges
Design
" Fashion and interior design are one and the same. "
Iris Apfel
Interior
Design
Fashion
" I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform. "
Matt Mickiewicz
You
Building
Design
" 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. "
Gary Hamel
Universe
Design
Intelligent
" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
Robert Rodriguez
Noir
Big
Always
" I love the way my tattoos look. I especially love Japanese-style tattoos and being completely sleeved by them, so it's not just these little individual and unrelated pieces, but everything's working together to create a larger design. "
Nikki Sixx
Working Together
Design
Love
" There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Design
You
Reason
" Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. "
Moshe Safdie
Most
Discipline
Design
" 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. "
Kourtney Kardashian
Want
Try
Go For It
" When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other. "
Neri Oxman
Science
You
Art
" 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
Me
People
" Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget. "
Tahl Raz
Everyone
Management
Design
" A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. "
Robert Rodriguez
Creativity
Who
Watch
" Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design. "
Kelly Wearstler
Informed
Clients
Better
" I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "
Tom Stoppard
Direct
Act
Design
" I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?' "
Neri Oxman
Myself
Better
Creation