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" 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. "

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" I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it. "

Henry Petroski

Time

Work

" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "

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

" Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. "

" So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. "

" I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. "

" To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. "

" One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. "

" What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. "

" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "

" 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

Meaning

Design

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

" It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. "

" Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. "

" The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff. "

" I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful. "

" It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it. "

" I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds. "

" Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome. "

" Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable. "

" With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. "

" I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. "

" I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. "

" Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love. "

" Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people. "

" That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. "

" 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. "

" It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy. "

" I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design. "

" Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. "