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" 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

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" Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them. "

" When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities. "

" There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space. "

" Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work. "

" The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Light

My Life

Clothes

" The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do. "

" If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. "

" The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. "

" I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do. "

" Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. "

" A camel is a horse designed by committee. "

" I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in. "

" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "

" I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. "

" 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. "

" My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional. "

" Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department. "

" I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right. "

" I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too. "

" I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. "

" Uber has to design for the global platform. "

" I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day. "

" After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. "

" My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks. "

" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "

" If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. "

" In contemplating what to do with my life, I felt like I had two possible paths: one was to move to New York and work in a design house; the other was to move to Africa and deliver food aid. That's when the idea of the FEED bag came to me. It's for those who want to put their consumer dollars to good use. "

Lauren Bush

Food

Good

" Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. "

" To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. "