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" If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. "

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" In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good. "

Michael Graves

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" 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. "

" I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way. "

Sonia Rykiel

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" Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well. "

" What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost. "

" When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. "

" Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women. "

" Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. "

" Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit. "

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

" Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. "

" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "

" Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. "

" 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. "

" When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was? "

" I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful. "

" 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. "

" Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. "

" To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry. "

Paul Rand

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Design

" When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been. "

" Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? "

" Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. "

" Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. "

" 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! "

" I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. "

" People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. "

" 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. "

" I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. "

" Building design isn't trendy. "

" Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth. "