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" Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. "

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" A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique. "

" Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. "

" The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. "

" When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great. "

" Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts. "

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

" Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have. "

" Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. "

" The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source? "

" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "

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

" Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. "

" We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. "

" Design is not for philosophy it's for life. "

" 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. "

Annabelle Selldorf

" 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. "

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

" Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias. "

" It takes a real designer to design for real women. "

" Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. "

Change The World

" There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them. "

" The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. "

" Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement. "

" I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers. "

" 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. "

" Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. "

" Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures. "

" Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one. "

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